MIR

Text Box: This is the Mir Docking Station. What a view!!                                           

 

                                                                                   Mir is the longest lasting and most efficient docking station up to date. It is under control of RASA (Russian Aviation and Space Agency). Mir's main goal is to find  a solution to permanent life in space.

 
Final configuration of Mir, with docked Space Shuttle?
This is the configuration of Mir and a shuttle docked onto it.

 

Text Box: Mir is a very fascinating space ship. It helped several people on their way to a planet or an orbit or even a moon landing. Mir probably helped tons of people that way. Something so big, yet only three people live there. This Russian structure has amazed me over this project. Text Box: When Soyuz T-M 8 launched, it began the phenomena of the longest human presence in space history. Plus, Mir made a second expansion. On Sept. 29th cosmonauts installed equipment in Mir to prepare for the docking of  Kvant 2.These 20-ton modules were based off the TKS spacecraft.

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Text Box: People say life on Mir was like living in a 100-ton floating maze where you had to chase your coffee every morning before you got to work. Well, that's what I'd say it would be at least. Mir is crammed with tools, wires, tubes, and other things you don't want to trip on, but, you still see regular every day things, like drawings from kids, pictures, magazines, and other normal-day junk. Usually Mir was built to have three people inside, but sometimes you can crunch in six for at  least a month until people go nuts. The atmosphere is clear, not humid, or dry. 'Nothing smells'  says John Blaha. The expectations for Mir to last without coming down and getting a big wash down inside and out would be ten to eleven years.  

Station statistics
NSSDC ID: 1986-017A
Call sign: Mir
Crew: 3
Launch: 1986-02-19
21:28:23 UTC
Launch pad: LC200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome,
 USSR
Reentry: 2001-03-23
05:50:00 UTC
Mass: 124,340 kg
(274,123 lbs)
Living volume: 350 m³
Perigee: 386 km (207.9 nmi)[dubious – discuss]
Apogee: 398 km (212.5 nmi)[dubious – discuss]
Orbit inclination: 51.6 degrees
Orbital period: 89.8 minutes
Orbits per day: 16.13
Days in orbit: 5,519 days
Days occupied: 4,592 days
Distance travelled: 3,638,470,307 km
(1,964,616,800 nmi)