Here’s how it works. Mir was a space station that operated for more than 15 years in low Earth orbit. The design was conceived under the Soviet Union, and the station continued work under Russia ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union launched the core module for the space station Mir. Mir was the first modular space station assembled in orbit, finally completed in 1996. The spacecraft tripled ...

On May 12, 2000, two Russian cosmonauts embarked on the 80th and final spacewalk at the Mir space station. This was also the first commercially financed spacewalk. A private company called Mircorp ...

March 20 -- When the Mir space station streaks down to Earth, tourists in a plane nearby won't be in the way, says the operator of the tour. But the Russian space agency isn't too sure.

The Mir Space Station was Russia's greatest space station, and the first modular space station to be assembled in orbit. Commissioned in 1986, the name can be translated from Russian as "peace ...

Exactly 30 years have passed since the last and most important Soviet space station went into orbit. The first module of the famous Soviet station, Mir, was launched into orbit on February 20 ...

There were 24 minutes of oxygen left in the space station Mir. Michael Foale’s ears were popping from pressure loss as precious air hissed through a hole in the hull. He sat alone in Mir’s ...

The nearly 60-foot-long space station module is a bit longer than the 1986-launched Soviet/Russian Mir core module by about 15 feet or so, but appears to have generally the same design ...

Fire — it is one of the first technological advancements made by early humans, but it nearly destroyed one of humanity’s greatest achievements, the Mir Space Station. In 1997, a fire aboard ...