On February 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. While this wasn't the first space station launched into orbit, it was the first one that had to be assembled piece-by-piece ...

extraterrestrial. This is the Ural Mir, named in honor of the Shuttle-Mir program, a space-based collaboration between the United States and Russia that saw shuttles visit the orbiting station in ...

He is due to return to Earth on Mar. 22, after a record 438 days in space. Learn more about the shuttle and Mir flights pose new challenges. See the cover of the February 20, 1995 issue.

One of our biggest stories of the past four decades took place in 1995, when an American space shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir. Despite previous cold war animosity, Russian ...

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