What was Mir?

Mir, which means "peace" and the "world" in Russian, was one of the most successful cosmic stations of the late 20th century. Mir, which started on February 19, 1986, represented the longest continuous human occupation of the universe at all and had a crew of 3-6 for only eight days after ten years. In its most crowded space station, the space station organized six astronauts for three weeks. Throughout its existence, the station has hosted more than 130 astronauts. Before starting, Mir required an unexpected year of reworking cables in a clean room environment. The Communist Party rushed the cosmic station in orbit so that it could be trumpeted at the upcoming congress. This circumstance meant that the trigger modules for the delivery of the crew and stocks on the station were not only available about a month after starting.

Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyov were the first to be Dr. Mir, starting on March 15, 1986 and staying at Mir for 51 days. They introduced the station and performed several early tests and experiments. AfterThey traveled their stay to another Soviet space station in orbit, Salyut 7, and remained another 51 -day period. After grabbing scientific equipment worth 400 kg, they headed back to Mira, stayed for three weeks and then descended to the ground.

Over the next ten years, Mir visited many dozens of Russians - and later numerous Americans. It is probably the most successful space station so far, although the international space station quickly catch up with many records. Other modules were added to Mir during his life. Finally, he collected seven modules with a live volume of 350 m ^{3 . Its total weight was 124 340 kg (274 123 pounds). Over the past few years, the TLE-MIR system, a cooperation between the United States and Russia, has been launched over the last few years. This has put the much needed funding into the project and served as an overture to international universrive station.}

Mir was deorbitated on March 21, 2001, to many media fanfares. Some fragments of the station fell near the island nation of Fiji in the South Pacific.