386955 01: Computer simulated images illustrate Mir's descent and breakup as it enters the Earth's atmosphere, March 21, 2001. Cosmonauts assembled Mir during a ten year period beginning in 1986. Five ...

It has taken nearly 250 years for the first full length translation of Mir’s putative autobiography, Zikr-e Mir to appear in Urdu. The section that has been consistently elided is the one relating to ...

Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union launched the core module for the space station Mir. Mir was the first modular space station assembled in orbit, finally completed in 1996. The spacecraft tripled its ...

The Soviet space station Mir, launched 30 years ago, was the biggest and most complex space station of its era, lasting three times as long as expected – until 2001. Mir in Russian means “peace”, ...

We picture astronauts performing routine orbital experiments. We are also aware of tragedies like Challenger and Columbia. But life beyond Earth is often much ...