Mir(modular)U.S.S.R./Russia—March 23, 2001occupied March 14, 1986, to June 15, 2000 (continuously from September 7, 1989, to August 28, 1999)first space station assembled in orbit using individually launched, specialized modules; successfully applied lessons learned from Salyut program ...
Space Station: A platform action adventure in which the player takes the role of a space ship commander. The station is attacked by aliens and must be destroyed. Sadly, the floppy disk with the destruction code is hidden somewhere in the 99 rooms and mus
The space station is in a circular earth orbit of radius 6600 km. A spacecraft is also in a circular orbit in the same plane as the space station. At the instant that the position of the spacecraft relative to the space station, in Clohessy-Wiltshire coordinates, is δr=5i^(km), wha...
Salyut 7 would continue to perform its duties until February 1991, with Mir (DOS-7, launched 1986) as the first modular space station taking over. The final DOS module (DOS-8) that directly traces its lineage to this era is still in orbit today as theISS’ Zvezda module, keeping the Sa...
On her next spaceflight in 2016, she became the first woman to command the space station twice when she took command of Expedition 51. She holds the record for being the oldest woman in space, having returned from her final mission at the age of 57. Whitson retired from NASA in June ...
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) Martin Amor Interviewer (uncredited) S. Newton Anderson Young Man (uncredited) The Dain Curse (1978) Ann Barrass Stewardess on Space Station (uncredited) Cry of the Banshee (1970) Jim Beasley Aeroflot Co-Pilot (uncredited) You Can't Win 'Em All ...
International Space StationExpedition 35 commander Pavel Vinogradov on a space walk outside the International Space Station, April 19, 2013.(more) 5 of 5 Soccer ball in the International Space StationA soccer ball, which was packed onto space shuttle Challenger in 1986 and survived that disaster,...
But it was in 1986 that the world saw the deployment of the first ever modular space station, which the soviets named mir. It would take a decade to assemble the seven-module Mir station, and even with the collapse of the Soviet Union coming right in the middle of the project. The rus...
Grigoriev AI, Bugrov SA, Bogomolov VV, Egorov AD, Polyakov VV, Tarasov IK, Shulzhenko EB (1993) Main medical results of extended flights on space station Mir in 1986–1990. Acta Astronautica 29:581–585Grigoriev AK, Bugrov SA, Bogomolov VV, et al. Main medical results of extended ...