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	Mir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mir was based upon the Salyut series of space stations previously launched by the Soviet Union (seven Salyut space stations had been launched since 1971).
		The Mir space station was originally planned to be followed by a Mir 2, and elements of that project, including the core module (now called Zvezda) which was labeled as "Mir-2" for quite some time in the factory, are now an integral part of the International Space Station.
		The journey of the 15-year-old Russian space station ended March 23, 2001, as Mir re-entered the Earth's atmosphere near Nadi, Fiji, and fell into the South Pacific Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mir_space_station (1655 words)

	Mir Space Station
		The Soyuz-TM spacecraft is used to transport crews and cargo to and from the Mir Space Station.
		The current Mir Space Station is actually a complex of different modules that have been pieced together.
		The Mir module, the first module of the complex placed in orbit, is the main module of the station.
	liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov /rsa/mir.html (252 words)

	Mir Space Station VideoCosmos
		Building of "Mir" Space Orbital Station in Space was initiated on February 20th, 1986 with the launch of Base Block.
		"Mir" Space station was completed in full configuration after 10 years of construction with the docking of last segment – "Priroda" module on April 26th, 1996.
		Especially for Space Shuttle docking with Orbital Station was developed a Docking module, which was delivered and docked with "Mir" Station during 2nd Space Shuttle visit.
	www.videocosmos.com /mir.shtm (345 words)

	Mir Space Station Program
		Mir is the successor to the Salyut series of vehicles (8 total), and is the largest space station ever orbited.
		Mir space science investigations include gamma ray, X-ray, UV and IR observations of active galaxies, quasars and neutron stars, and observations of various solar-terrestrial phenomena and interactions.
		The station's wide variety of space technology tasks have included the study of protective and construction materials for space use, the effects of the low Earth orbit environment on various materials such as ferromagnetics, polymers, and composites, and the manufacture of high purity materials in low-g materials processing furnaces.
	space.jpl.nasa.gov /msl/Programs/mir.html (577 words)

	Mir Space Station Observing (continued)
		The Mir 25 Crew (Musubayan, Budarin had been in space 207 days) and Baturan undocked from Mir on August 25 at 02:05 UT and landed near Arkalyk, in northern Kazakstan on August 25 at 05:23 UT. The Mir 26 Crew of Padulka and Avdeyev remain on board Mir.
		Mir's orbit was briefly raised on December 8 and 9, 1999 by the Progress vessel.
		Feb 7, 2000: Mir was boosted again early on Feb 7 to a 329 x 320 km orbit based on the latest elset from OIG for Feb 7 at 12:52 UTC and a one minute late observation by an observer on SeeSat-L.
	www.satobs.org /mir1.html (5612 words)

	Mir space station
		The the oldest Mir's module was carrying the first set of gyrodines, a complex mechanical wheels, which for the first time allowing Soviet orbital station to maintain its attitude in space without firing its thrusters and consuming precious propellant.
		Alhtough Mir allowed almost permanent human presence in space and space flight itself seem routine, not once Russian cosmonauts and thier guests were risking their lives in the situations which nobody had expirienced before.
		Origianally designed for the Salyut-7, the Mir predecessor, the Kvant module stuck on the ground until the new station is ready.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /mir.html (464 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Mir Space Station \| Mission Status Center
		The era of space station Mir is over, ending a 2.2 billion mile odyssey of the orbiting complex that was visited by 104 astronauts over its 15-year voyage.
		Russian space officials report the first braking maneuver is underway aboard Mir.
		Mir is currently at altitude of about 80 miles as it remains on the planned trajectory for reentry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean within a 3,700-mile and 125-mile strip around a center geographically positioned at 44.2 degrees latitude and 150 degrees longitude.
	spaceflightnow.com /mir/status.html (1340 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Today's issues The Mir space station
		So Mir yet so far for the Russian space station, as it is brought crashing back down to earth.
		Fifteen years later, with computer failures, space fungus and one fire having plagued Mir at the end of its operational period, the decision was made to bring it down.
		In the next 24 hours or so the Russian space station is expected to crash down to earth.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,461082,00.html (318 words)

	Space Today Online -- Americans Who Lived Aboard Mir Space Station
		She was the second American astronaut to stay on Mir and the first American woman to live aboard the space station.
		Wolf also didn't fly to Mir until after NASA Administrator Dan Goldin assured the U.S. Congress that the station was a safe place to live in space.
		That flight was the first shuttle rendezvous with Mir station.
	www.spacetoday.org /SpcStns/MirAmericans.html (1221 words)

	Online NewsHour -- The Mir Space Station
		A report on the cooperation between the space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir and leads a discussion on where the countries' space programs should be headed.
		The Russian space station, Mir, was accidentally left in free drift and complete darkness overnight.
		With problems aboard the space station Mir still in the foreground, are Russians beginning to lose confidence in their space program?
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/science/mir_index.html (165 words)

	CNN - Mir to stay aloft with International Space Station hardware - January 20, 2000
		MOSCOW -- Russia's aging Mir space station got a new lease on life Thursday when the government decided to keep it in orbit through August, using hardware previously allocated for the International Space Station.
		Mir has been flying unmanned since its last crew left in August, and the cash-poor government had decided to stop financing it and abandon the nearly 14-year old station around March unless private investors came up with funds.
		The U.S. space agency NASA has long urged Russian space officials to abandon the Mir, which has suffered a series of accidents and technical problems in recent years, and commit their scarce resources to the ISS.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/TECH/space/01/20/russia.mir.iss (737 words)

	ESA Portal - Honourable discharge for Mir space station
		Mir is also the inspiration for the International Space Station, a joint endeavour by Russia, Japan, the United States, Canada and 10 ESA Member States.
		Launched on 20 February 1986, Mir was expected to stay in space for only 5 years instead of which it has now been in orbit for 15 years.
		The decision on the final de-orbit procedure will be taken at the latest on 12 March by the MIR De-orbit Commission headed by Mr Koptev, Director General of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Rosaviakosmos.
	www.esa.int /export/esaCP/ESA6X0UM5JC_index_2.html (364 words)

	Mir space station
		Issues such as the over-age Mir Base Block's propulsion system (and its explosive potential), or general hull pressure integrity in the face of cumulative weakening from corrosion and metal fatigue (leading to sudden pressure loss), had rendered the final months of Mir in space increasingly dangerous.
		Once the jewel in the crown of the Soviet space program, Mir's reputation has been tarnished in recent years by a spate of accidents which, combined with a cash shortage, prompted reluctant space officials to abandon it.
		Designed with a three-year service life, Mir grabbed a host of space endurance records following its launch in 1986, becoming the envy of the better-funded US space effort.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Space/MirStation.htm (327 words)

	StarChild: Space Station Mir
		During the 15 years it was in orbit, Russia's Mir space station provided a home in space for more than one hundred cosmonauts and astronauts from at least twelve different countries.
		Mir was equipped with docking ports for Soyuz-TM and Progress-M spacecraft.
		The manned Soyuz-TM spacecraft was used to transport crews and cargo to and from the station.
	starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/StarChild/space_level2/mir.html (445 words)

	International Space Station Overview
		Led by the United States, the International Space Station draws upon the scientific and technological resources of 16 nations: Canada, Japan, Russia, 11 nations of the European Space Agency and Brazil.
		The International Space Station is the largest and most complex international scientific project in history.
		The international partners, Canada, Japan, the European Space Agency, and Russia, will contribute the following key elements to the International Space Station:
	www.shuttlepresskit.com /ISS_OVR (1822 words)

	Mir Space Station
		The Mir orbital space station was the most successful space project of the Russian nation during the late 20th century.
		This era of cooperation paved the way for the international space station Freedom, completed and manned in the early 21st century by both American and Russian scientists, in addition to astronauts from other countries.
		In addition to having American astronauts, the space station itself was visited and resupplied frequently by the United States space shuttle Atlantis.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/servalan/110/mir.html (276 words)

	Mir close calls
		No matter what was said and written about Mir during its trouble years at the end of the 1990s, this space station will enter history books as a resounding success.
		One wondering how this lesson was learned should look at the docking compartment of the International Space Station, which also serves as the airlock for the Russian segment of the station.
		Soon after the launch toward Mir on February 11, 1990, the cosmonauts Anatoly Soloviev and Alexander Balandin discovered that thermal protection sheets on the reentry capsule of their Soyuz spacecraft came loose.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /mir_close_calls.html (1074 words)

	Mir Space Station
		Activities on Mir have included NASA shuttle missions (STS-60, STS-63, STS-71, STS-74, STS-76, STS-79, STS-81, STS-84, STS-86, STS-89, and STS-91) each of which docked with Mir, all of which form the stepping stones to creating the International Space Station (ISS).
		Mir provided the facilities for wide-reaching research ranging from space life sciences, microgravity, and space technology experiments, to earth observation and sciences, and space sciences.
		Mir is the culmination of the Russian space program's efforts to maintain long-duration human presence in space.
	www.hightechscience.org /mir_space_station.htm (413 words)

	Mir: A Rich Chronology
		In January Mir's crew installs a 46-foot (14-meter) boom called Strela (Arrow) on the exterior of the station, which will later serve as a crane used for transferring cargo and astronauts around construction and repair areas on the outpost.
		The boom later is used to carry a propulsion unit used to improve the ability the now-gawky Mir complex to orient itself in space.
		A Soyuz spacecraft, damaged on the ground and unable to fly, kept a replacement crew from arriving at Mir in time to relieve a departing crew.
	www.space.com /news/spacestation/mirinteractive_chron.html (1548 words)

	APOD: April 2, 1996 - Atlantis Approaches Mir
		Explanation: Imagine flying though space and approaching the Mir space station.
		Four more shuttle flights are currently planned to Mir, keeping a NASA astronaut continuously in space until late 1997.
		In late 1997, building on this jointly developed understanding and experience, the US and Russia will launch the first modules of the International Space Station.
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap960402.html (238 words)

	Mir Guide SpaceRef
		The destruction of the 15-year-old Mir space station is likely to be postponed by one day to March 23.
		"Russian authorities have reconfirmed that the Mir Space Station is to spashdown in the Pacific Ocean, midway between New Zealand and Chile, about 5:20 - 5:30pm (Canberra time) [06:20 - 06:30 UTC] on Friday, 23 March 2001.
		"Russian space managers have changed the makeup of a two-man cosmonaut crew on standby for a flight to the abandoned Mir space station in the event of any future emergency that might cause an uncontrolled re-entry."
	www.spaceref.com:16080 /mir (5352 words)

	Space Station Mir (Orbiter sim) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This was done on purpose, as at that time Mir was meant to be a waypoint for the travel to the other destinations within Solar System.
		Latest release of Mir features a mesh by
		space flight simulator (a closed source, freeware simulator by
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_Station_Mir_%28Orbiter_sim%29 (5352 words)

	Orbiter (sim) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		freeware space flight simulator, by Martin Schweiger, a Ph.D. at the
		Orbiter has attracted a sizable number of people centered around several fora and repositiories.
		Orbiter's solar system consists of the sun and eight planets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orbiter_(sim) (5352 words)

	Amazing Stuff!
		The X-Prize is a contest for the first private team to build a reusable space vehicle to carry three people to a height of 100KM and be ready to re-fly within a two week period!
		History of our space program from NACA to the space shuttle.
		IRAQ's first attempts at a space program where to patch together some SCUD-C missiles for project Tamouz.
	members.verizon.net /mlaferriere/amazing.htm (2648 words)

	APOD: July 3, 1998 - Mir Above
		Photographed from the approaching Space Shuttle Endeavour, the Mir space station floats above the clouds of planet Earth.
		Astronaut Andrew Thomas was dropped off at Mir by Endeavour in January and recently picked up by the Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-91, the ninth and last Mir docking mission.
		the construction of the International Space Station scheduled to begin with
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap980703.html (117 words)

	Mir, Soviet and Russian space station. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Soviet and Russian space station: see space exploration; space station.
	www.bartleby.com /65/x-/X-Mir.html (64 words)

	SpaceViews: Space Station Mir
		The collision of an unmanned Progress supply spacecraft with the Mir space station, and resulting decompression of the Spektr module, on June 25 has brought the status of the 11-year-old station to the attention of the world.
		a history of the Mir space station and its triumphs and trials.
		The station has suffered from a series of problems over the past several months, but Russian and American officials say good research is still being done on the station, and the experience gained there will be useful for the upcoming International Space Station.
	www.seds.org /spaceviews/mir (175 words)

	Space Station Mir
		The purpose of it is to provide means for astronauts to get acquainted with the process of docking of a space ship to a module of space station MIR.
		Space Station MIR - full-functioned methodical VR system to perfect docking skills
		This model is not a stand-alone system - it can connect through the network to the system of dynamics modelling which is responsible for the station physical behavior.
	www.softlab-nsk.com /Pro/Mir.html (222 words)

	Mir Space Station Photo Gallery
		Mir in orbit, as seen by the STS-63 crew from space shuttle Discovery.
		Mir in orbit around a frail blue planet.
		Click on a photo to see a larger photo and caption.
	www.spacepix.net /mir (32 words)

	Where is Mir?
		The Mir space station is 15 years old, and soon its adventure in space will end.
		The Russian space agency plans to bring Mir back to earth in a fiery descent.
		Visit our web sites SCIENCE @ NASA for the latest in science news, Liftoff for tracking, missions and more, or NASA KIDS the place for the aspiring astronaut!
	science.nasa.gov /temp/mir_loc.html (78 words)

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