Mir space station Launched February 1986 The International Space Station The United States, Russia, Japan, Canada, and fourteen member countries of the European Space Agency (ESA) are hard at work on the International Space Station (ISS), an...

The word mir means "peace," but to millions of Russians it is associated with a symbol of national pride. The space station Mir claimed a number of distinctions that are unmatched, even in the early twenty-first century, by the spacecraft...

Soviet/Russian modular space station, the core module (base block) of which was launched into Earth orbit by the U.S.S.R. in 1986. Over the next decade additional modules were sent aloft on separate launch vehicles and attached to the core unit,...

Russian space station. It consists of a core module launched in 1986 and five additional modules launched separately over the next decade and attached to the core unit to create a large, versatile space laboratory. The third generation of Russian space...

MIR can refer to: MIR (submersible) Soviet and Russian bathyscaphes Habib Bourguiba International Airport in Tunisia Mail-in rebate Medical Inspection Room, the place for sick parade in most British and Commonwealth militaries and many Non-governmental...