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.” ...

Nevertheless, space officials here are adamant that it must die. “My heart hurts when I think about sinking the station, the fruit of our years of effort, but reason and the numbers convince me ...

On February 20, 1986, a Proton rose off its launchpad in Kazakstan bound for low Earth orbit. Its payload was a module designated 17KS, known better as the core stage of the Mir space station.

Russian Space Station To Drop Out Of Space On March 20. Latest. U.S. World; Politics; ... Mir is to be brought down in a fiery but controlled plunge into the South Pacific in a delicate series of ...

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 ...

20 years ago this week, the Mir space station returned to Earth in a blaze of glory. For years, Mir’s crews had struggled to keep the station running despite its seeming determination to fall ...

Sure, it stank. The Mir space station became a malodorous, filthy, chronically malfunctioning deathtrap. It was an orbiting Dumpster. It crashed into things. It caught on fire. It got moldy. A ...

Dec. 27 -- Russian space officials say there is no danger of the Mir space station crashing to Earth despite a recent bout of communication breakdowns with the aging space station. “We are ...

OK, so it wouldn't actually be a piece of the Mir, but, as its vendor points out on the auction Web site eBay, "You can tell your friends that this is a real piece of the Mir Space Station, and ...

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 ...