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Mir (Russian: Мир; lit. world and/or peace) was a Soviet (and later Russian) orbital station. It was humanity's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space. Mir currently holds the record for longest continuous human presence in space at eight days short of 10 years. Through a number of collaborations, it was made internationally accessible to cosmonauts and astronauts of many different countries. Mir was assembled in orbit by successively connecting several modules, each launched separately from February 19, 1986 to 1996.
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Mir insignia | |
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Mission name | Mir |
Call sign | Mir |
Launch | February 19, 1986 21:28:23 UTC Baikonur, USSR |
Re-entry | March 23, 2001 05:50:00 UTC |
Crew | 28 long duration crews |
Occupied | 4,594 days |
In orbit | 5,511 days |
Number of Orbits | 89,067 |
Apogee | 393 km /244 mi |
Perigee | 385 km /239 mi |
Period | 89.1 min |
Inclination | 51.6 deg |
Distance traveled | 3,638,470,307 km / 2,260,840,632 mi |
Orbital mass w/Spektr, Kristal, etc. | 124,340 kg |
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Mir space station |
The station existed until March 23, 2001, at which point it was deliberately de-orbited, and broke apart during atmospheric re-entry.
The manufacturer of Mir was the Khrunichev State Space Scientific Production Center.