A quarter-century later, in 1987, this concept became reality when the Kvant module was added to the Mir core station. First-generation space stations had one docking port and could not be ...

who spent 437 continuous days on board the Mir space station. Otherwise a routine crew rotation flight, the Crew-10 mission is a long-awaited first step to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth ...

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 ...

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 a then-unprecedented spirit of cooperation.

when cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days aboard the Mir space station. A two-way trip to Mars, by contrast, would likely take just under three years. Much of the necessary research into how ...

who spent 437 continuous days aboard the Mir space station. Still, the unexpected nature of their stint away from their families – they had to receive additional clothing and personal care items ...

who spent 437 continuous days aboard the Mir space station. Still, the unexpected nature of their prolonged stay away from their families – they had to receive additional clothing and personal ...