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Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir (ISBN 0-88730-783-3) is a 1999 book by Bryan Burrough about the Russian Mir space station and the cosmonauts and astronauts who served aboard. The story centres on astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997. Personnel covered in the book
A view of Mir on 12 June 1998 as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-91 Mir (lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station, operational in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. With a mass greater than that of any previous space station, Mir was constructed from 1986 to 1996 with a modular design, the first to be assembled in this way. The station was ...
Progress M-34 undocked from Mir at 10:22:45 UTC on 24 June 1997, in preparation for a docking test planned for the next day. On 25 June 1997, the spacecraft re-approached Mir under manual control ( TORU ), in a test intended to establish whether Russia could reduce the cost of Progress missions by eliminating the Kurs automated docking system.
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Mir (Russian: Мир IPA: lit. Peace or World ), DOS-7 , was the first module of the Soviet/Russian Mir space station complex, in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. Generally referred to as either the core module or base block , the module was launched on 20 February 1986 on a Proton-K rocket from LC-200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome .
Governor Gavin Newsom is postponing a clemency decision for Lyle and Erik Menendez until incoming LA County DA Nathan Hochman reviews the case.
The Toniebox is an imagination-building, screen-free digital audio toy that plays stories, sings songs and more, and it's still on sale for its same Black Friday price.
Dragonfly is an astrobiology mission to Titan to assess its microbial habitability and study its prebiotic chemistry at various locations. Dragonfly is designed to perform controlled flights and vertical takeoffs and landings between locations. The mission is to involve flights to multiple different locations on the surface, which allows ...