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 ...ie Shuttle/Mir missions
The objectives were: • to better understand past and future investigations;
• to gain engineering and operational experience in conducting • to conduct specific investigations in medica...
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The third Shuttle Mir Mission will be launched
on 21 March
Longer
life
Seven more Space
Shuttle missions
are scheduled to
dock with the
Russian Mir 1
space station.
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF ...
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 ...lorers would have to undergo months of
training and tolerate invasive medicals.
They would also become a subservient part of
a crew headed by professional cosmonauts,
which means most visitors to Mir will be
reduced to looking out of die window and han
dling the menial tasks of "housecleaning".
At $20 million, Tito's 10 days on Soyuz and
Mir is die equivalent of $83,330 per hour, of
which...
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TIM FURNISS/LONDON
THE RUSSIAN MIR space station was to have been taken out of orbit last summer, and the country's space efforts diverted to the International Space Station (ISS). If
MirCorp had not stepped in, the venerable
spa...
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 ...espite the
Discovery's triumph,
joint US/CIS
missions face an
uncertain future.
The high-profile flight of STS63 Discovery
— which was not originally planned to include
a Mir rendezvous, and was not part of the offi
cial Phase 1 co-operative programme —
demonstrated how well US and Russian engi
neers can work together from their Houston
and Kaliningrad control cent...
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New Progress
joins Mir
MOSCOW
Unmanned cargo craft
Progress 26 docked with the
Soviet Mir 1 space station on
April 27. Launched on April
23, by SL-4 booster from
Tyuratam, Progress 26
replaced Progress 25 which ...
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 ...hen it was launched in 1986, the Soviet Union's Mir space station
was hailed as a new beginning in space. Three years on, the much
vaunted, and larger, Mir 2 has not yet left the drawing board. A budget
crisis, technical problems and inter-agenc...
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 ...he Soviet Mir space station is going to remain
operational for much longer than first planned,
stretching its resources andflexihility,
reports Tim Furniss. M
ir will not be complete and
fully operational u...
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 ...bove The Mir core, showing the five-port
docking pod unoccupied. Left Proton as it
- looked when launching Mir. All drawings by
Ralph Gibbons
it was recently announced that Progress is
to be replaced by a...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
The Mir rendezvous
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In the Shuttle mock-up and integration
laboratory are (left to right) James Wetherhee,
Eileen Collins, Bernard Harris, Michael Foa/e,
Janice Ford, and Vladimir Titov.
invol...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Finishing tape
The docking of a US shuttle with
the Russian Mir 1 marks the
official end of the "space race".
TIM FURNISS/LONDON
STS71 crewmembers inspect the androgynous peripheral
docking system
When the US Space Shuttle STS71/Atlantis makes its histori...
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 ...ir Soviet base in space
Twenty-three days after the Challenger disaster, on February 20, 1986, a
three-stage SL-13 Proton
lifted off into the night sky
over the Tyuratam Cosmo
drome, carrying a ...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
The Soyuz 20
manned
spacecraft (left)
docked to the
forward
multiple
docking port of
the Mir, to
which also
attached are the
Kvant 2 and
Kristall (facing)
modules. The
Mir core
module is in the
centre
This is the target for the Space Shuttle Atlantis/STS 11 on 12 June —
the andr...
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 ...space station
made a natural re-entry, which was predicted to
end with debris raining over the Pacific, but
large parts crashed in Western Australia.
UNPREDICTABLE BEHAVIOUR
The problem with the Mir is that it is not just
one large symmetric cylinder. It consists of six
modules, five of which are the size of a bus, plus
huge arrays of solar panels. "It is asymmetric
and it is impossible t...
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 ...AF CONGRESS INNSBRUCK
Mir
additions
begin
next year
An astrophysics laboratory
module will become the first
"building block" addition to
the Soviet Mir space station
early next year, reports Tim
Furniss from Innsb...
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 ...aunched in 1987 and docked with some
difficulty, requiring an emergency EVA by
the resident crew.
Unlike the other modules, which will use
the five-port docking pod on the front of Mir,
Kvant is mounted on the back, and is
provided with its own docking port to take
Soyuz TM manned ferries or unmanned
Progress tankers.
Kvant is an international astrophysics
laboratory and, ...
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The de-orbiting of
Russia's Mir space
station next June is
being planned on
the Farnborough
site, but it may be
unnecessary - and
could be dangerous Mir's asymmetry makes it impossible to predict how the craft will break u...
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 ...ove the
Apollo-Soyuz project in July 1975 have
the two space leaders worked together.
This time, the main driver is not so
much detente as cost. The link-up of the
US Space Shuttle with Russia's Mir 1
space station in June will be the first step
towards joint work on the proposed
Alpha international space station. The
reality is that neither side can afford to
build a station on its own....
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
TIM FURNISS/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
BY 7 AUGUST, Russia's Soyuz TM26 should have arrived at the troubled Mir space station. It will be a member of the next mission to the A fir who will be most
worried about the success of the TM26, howev
er. US astronaut Navy Cdr Wendy Lawrence is
part of the Space S...
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 ...PACEFLIGHT
Mir
ready for
crew switch
MOSCOW
Progress 33, the seventh
supply tanker to dock with the
Soviet Mir space station in
support of the longest manned
spaceflight in history, linked
up on Novembe...
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