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... 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:MIR2_Variant_0_English.jpg '''Variant 0 of MIR-2 space station''' Image:Variants_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 ...

... 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 spacecraft Progress M ... TM-17 transport spacecraft on July 3, 1993. Image:MirLaunchProton.jpg The launch of the Mir complex core. The launch was accomplished with the use of the Proton launch vehicle on ... 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 storing "tons of food, clothing, and other gear that was ferried to Russia's Mir space station aboard a series of recently concluded U.S. shuttle flights." Russia announced it would retire the Mir space station during the summer of 1999, six months earlier than originally planned. The decision ... US$600 million owed for Mir 's operations in 1997, using "unspecified `nonbudgetary sources'." June 1998 June July 1998 July Jul 1 1998 1 Jul 2 1998 2 Jul 3 1998 3 Jul ...

... SPACE CENTER KSC ) in Cape Canaveral , Florida, despite problems with the automatic steering system on Mir . The Shuttle's mission was to retrieve the seventh and last American to live aboard Mir . The day's temperature reached 97°F (36°C) during the countdown, making it the " ... ) in the universe. May 1998 May June 1998 June Jun 1 1998 1 Jun 2 1998 2 Jun 3 1998 3 Jun 4 1998 4 Jun 5 1998 5 Jun 6 1998 ...

... , Jan 2/95; Science, Oct 20/95) The United States and Russia began taking practical steps toward merging their manned space programs. NASA expected to begin shuttle flights to the Mir Space ... for seven flights through 1997 in which U.S. Space Shuttle s would dock with Mir and allow the exchange of crews. One shuttle mission in 1995 would supply solar arrays ... expertise in space structures and mechanisms in order to boost Mir 's electrical out-put by six kilowatts. (Av Wk, Jan 2/95; San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan 4/95) Scientists at ...

... remained undetermined. (AP, Oct 2/91; Fla Today, Oct 2/91; W Times, Oct 3/91) A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the Mir Space Station carrying an Austrian ... docked with Mir on October 4. On October 10, two Soviet cosmonauts and the first Austrian in space returned to Earth, according to Tass. (AP, Oct 2/91; UPI, Oct 2/91; P ... , Oct 10/91) September 1991 September October 1991 October Oct 1 1991 1 Oct 2 1991 2 Oct 3 1991 3 Oct 4 1991 4 Oct 5 1991 5 Oct 6 1991 ...

... and a German astronaut returned safely to Russia after tenures aboard the Russian space station Mir . The cosmonauts had spent more than six months in space, and Reinhold Ewald of Germany had spent two weeks aboard Mir as a paying guest of the Russian Space Agency . Ewald conducted geophysical, astrophysical, and medical ... Russia's space program. February 1997 February March 1997 March Mar 1 1997 1 Mar 2 1997 2 Mar 3 1997 3 Mar 4 1997 4 Mar 5 1997 5 Mar 6 ...

... Mir and then redocking using automatic systems, the three cosmonauts aboard the Russian Space Station would remain in space an additional day. The operation was carried out successfully on November 2. On November 4, the German scientist and two cosmonauts returned to Earth. (Reuters, Nov 2/94; Phoenix Gazette, Nov 4/94; AP, Nov 4/94; UP, Nov 4/94) NASA' ... Release N94-78) October 1994 October November 1994 November Nov 1 1994 1 Nov 2 1994 2 Nov 3 1994 3 Nov 4 1994 4 Nov 5 1994 5 Nov 6 1994 ...

... Station Mir in October 1995. The mission commander was designated as Kenneth D. Cameron. (NASA Release 94-145) August 1994 August September 1994 September Sep 1 1994 1 Sep 2 1994 2 Sep ...

... Office ceremony, as the fifty-three-year-old astronaut recounted her 188 days aboard the Mir space station. Lucid recalled fondly her time spent with the two Russian cosmonauts, a period ... colonization as "hyperbole." November 1996 November December 1996 December Dec 1 1996 1 Dec 2 1996 2 Dec 3 1996 3 Dec 4 1996 4 Dec 5 1996 5 Dec 6 1996 ...

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