Mir modular space station
Estación espacial modular Mir
- Date
- 1986 · confidence high
- Place
- Baikonur, Kazakhstan (USSR); NPO Energia, Korolev
- Credited to
- NPO Energia (USSR)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
The first station assembled in orbit from modules, inhabited almost without interruption for fifteen years. It set records for human endurance in space and hosted Russian-American cooperation.
What it led to
- The ISS, designed on the basis of the Mir experience
- Post-Cold War space cooperation (the Shuttle-Mir programme)
- Knowledge of the effects of prolonged weightlessness
Built on
- Soyuz spacecraft1967
- Space station (Salyut 1 and Skylab)1971-1973
- Apollo-Soyuz: first docking between craft of two countries17 de julio de 1975
- Salyut station
- Soyuz spacecraft
- Proton modules
Made possible
- International Space Station (ISS)1998
- Chinese crewed spaceflight (Shenzhou 5, Tiangong)2003
- long-duration Mars mission (study)