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... modules. The arriving crew, carrying tools and equipment, also had difficulty docking. As Soyuz approached Mir , its autonomic docking system failed, forcing Solovyev to override the system and pull Soyuz back ... using Shuttle missions to prepare for the much-anticipated space station. Discovery also carried a 7,000-pound (3,200-kilogram) German satellite, which would orbit freely for most of ...

... to fire the engines of the cargo ship attached to the space station, thereby pulling Mir from orbit and sending the space station hurtling into Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists predicted that ... Japan in its final, low orbit. (Vladimir Isachenkov, “Russia to Insure Mir Descent Negotiating $200 Million Spacecraft Policy,” Chicago Sun-Times, 7 March 2001.) February 2001 February March 2001 March Mar 1 ...

... _english.jpg '''Variants of MIR-2 initial module. Energia launched.''' Image:BM_MIR_Module_English.jpg '''MIR-2 Basic Technological Module''' Image:MIR-2_Initial_English.jpg '''Initial Variant of MIR-2 space station''' Image ... _of_Payload_Modules_MIR2.jpg '''Variant of Payload Modules for MIR-2 space station''' Image:Mir-2.jpg '''Final version of the proposed permanently operating Mir-2 modular-type complex.''' Category:Spacecraft

... 600 px Image:MirCrew.jpg An international crew on board the Mir complex. Image:MirKvant.jpg The Mir complex core with the Kvant module and the Soyuz TM spacecraft in flight. Image:MirKvantKristallSoyuz.jpg The Mir complex with the Kvant, Kvant-2 and Kristall modules, transport spacecraft Soyuz TM-16, cargo ... assemblies and a new docking system. Image:MirSchematic.jpg The arrangement of modules on the Mir orbital complex core. Schematic Image:MirSTS.jpg Artist’s concept of the US Space Shuttle ...

... for VLBI. U.S. astronaut Jerry M. Linenger , NASA's temporary resident aboard Russia's Mir space station, became the second American to ride aboard the three-person Soyuz capsule that ... G. Korzun and Alexander Y. Kaleri , Linenger's Russian partners aboard Mir , took Linenger for a short ride around Mir , to free a docking station for the new Soyuz vehicle that Russia ... 1997 3 Feb 4 1997 4 Feb 5 1997 5 Feb 6 1997 6 Feb 7 1997 7 Feb 8 1997 8 Feb 9 1997 9 Feb 10 1997 10 Feb 11 ...

... 10:04 a.m. EDT, was the first Soviet crew-tended launch in 1988. The Mir visit was to be a 10-day mission in which the visiting astronauts would perform over 40 experiments aboard the station. The two astronauts aboard Mir were to remain after the departure of their colleagues and continue a year-long endurance ... 1988 3 Jun 4 1988 4 Jun 5 1988 5 Jun 6 1988 6 Jun 7 1988 7 Jun 8 1988 8 Jun 9 1988 9 Jun 10 1988 10 Jun 11 ...

... Asia. The Soyuz TM-5 , returning to Earth from a week-long visit to the Mir space station, experienced premature shutdowns of its reentry motor during the first two deorbit burn ... the Mir space station of a physician crew member. (FBIS-SOV-88-175, Sep 9/88; AP, Sep 7/88; NY Times, Sep 7/88; W Post, Sep 7/88; WSJ, Sep 7/88; W ... 1988 3 Sep 4 1988 4 Sep 5 1988 5 Sep 6 1988 6 Sep 7 1988 7 Sep 8 1988 8 Sep 9 1988 9 Sep 10 1988 10 Sep 11 ...

... /91; UPI, Sep 10/91) The media reported the concern of Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Mir Space Station that the station and the space program in general might he sold because ... the Energia team that managed Mir , said according to Tass, that the Space Station would remain the property of his collective. (NY Times, Sep 7/91; AP, Sep 7/91; P Inq, Sep ... be a resource for the best use of water supplies in California. (Bakersfield Californian, Sep 7/91) August 1991 August September 1991 September Sep 1 1991 1 Sep 2 1991 2 ...

... it would acquire Russian docking equipment for Space Shuttle Atlantis ' planned linkup with Russia's Mir Space Station in 1995. Acquisition of the docking adapter was part of an agreement between ... on the Shuttle Discovery in November and sending an American astronaut to Mir for three months in 1995. (AP, Jul 7/93; H Chron, Jul 8/93)) French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur ... link with a French cosmonaut who was on a joint Franco-Russian mission. (RTW, Jul 7/93) NASA announced that it had awarded contracts to three U.S. aerospace companies to ...

... , May 7/93) The European Space Agency ( ESA ) announced that it had picked two Germans, a Spaniard, and a Swede for its first joint missions with Russian astronauts to the Mir -1 ... two men would participate would be made in the weeks before the flight. (RTw, May 7/93) At a news conference during the annual Naval Aviation Symposium, astronauts Eugene A. Cernan ... 's man's intuitive spirit to go back and go on to Mars." (AP, May 7/93) The media reported that the Space Shuttle Columbia landed May 6 at Edwards Air ...

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