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Following the success of the Salyut programme, Mir represented the next stage in the Soviet Union's space station programme. The first module of the station, known as the core module or base block, was launched in 1986 and followed by six further modules.
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.
It put the first space station, Salyut 1, into low Earth orbit in 1971, and the first modular space station, Mir, in 1986. [14] Its Interkosmos program was also notable for sending the first citizen of a country other than the United States or Soviet Union into space. [15] [16]
20 February – The first component of the Mir space station - the core module - is launched. 24 February – VI Winter Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR opens in Krasnoyarsk. 25 February – The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is opened, where the concept of glasnost emerges.
The highest number of people at the same time on one space station has been 13, first achieved with the eleven day docking to the ISS of the 127th Space Shuttle mission in 2009. The record for most people on all space stations at the same time has been 17, first on May 30, 2023, with 11 people on the ISS and 6 on the TSS.
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 ...
Following the success of the Salyut programme, Mir represented the next stage in the Soviet Union's space station programme. The first module of the station, known as the core module or base block, was launched in 1986 and followed by six further modules.
1986 January 24 USA First Uranus flyby Voyager 2: 1986 February 19 USSR First module of the first modular space station launched, marking the start of the orbital assembly Mir Core Module: 1989 August 25 USA First Neptune flyby Voyager 2: 1990 February 11 USSR First consistently inhabited long-term research space station Mir