The space station served as an important precursor to today's International Space Station. Aboard Mir, crews dealt for the first time with long-duration stays in space of more than 400 days.

The map disappeared from the big screen, and was replaced by a diagram of the Mir space station with a caption in Russian: “OK [Orbital Complex] Mir, Launch: 20.02.1986, Descent: 23.03.2001.” ...

KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) -- The Mir space station returned to Earth in pieces Friday, ending its 15-year, 2.2 billion-mile odyssey with a fiery plunge into the South Pacific. There was no immediate ...

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 ...

Russia said it lost contact with its doomed Mir space station for almost a day, raising fears that the 130-ton contraption will become uncontrollable when space engineers ditch it next year ...

MirCorp signed an exclusive lease agreement for Mir with RSC Energia – the Russian enterprise that built and operates the station. A pioneer in space technology, RSC Energia is one of the oldest ...

KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) — Russia s deteriorating Mir space station received what was probably its final visitor on Saturday: A cargo ship laden with fuel to propel the 15-year-old orbiting lab ...

Mir was decommissioned and de-orbited in 2001 to make way for the International Space Station, which now serves as the polling place for astronauts (they even list their addresses as "low-Earth ...