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When the International Space Station was being built, Canada's contribution was the Canadarm2, which was delivered to the ISS in April of 2001. Canadarm2 was designed so either end of it could ...

Overlapping with NASA’s Shuttle Program was the Russian Mir space station, which launched in February 1986 and remained in service for 15 years, three times its planned lifetime.

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 ...

The STS-63 mission, more popularly dubbed as the near-Mir mission, was a successful mission that spanned from February 3-11, 1995. A mission that served as a dress rehearsal for later missions ...

That engagement harkens back to the deorbiting of Russia's Mir space station in 2001. Controlled reentry of the 130-ton Mir took place over the South Pacific Ocean, near Nadi, Fiji.

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 ...

SpaceX is slated to splash down the International Space Station in the cemetery in 2030. Experts believe that large chunks of Mir, the size of a small car, survived its 2001 deorbit.

Mir remained in space until 23 March 2001, during which time it orbited the Earth more than 86,000 times. This BBC News report was broadcast on 20 February 1986. BBC Archive ...

In 1971, the Soviet Union launched the World's first space station, Salyut, meaning salute in Russian, into space. The space station, which weighed 20 metric tons and had one docking port, was ...