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Mar 23, 2021 · Left: The Mir’s base block module as seen by the first expedition crew in March 1986. Middle: Space shuttle Atlantis docked with Mir in July 1995. Right: Mir photographed by the STS-91 crew in June 1998. During its 13 years of human occupancy, Mir hosted 104 cosmonauts and astronauts from 13 countries and space agencies.
Mar 22, 2001 · Russian and U.S. space officials say they hope Alpha will last even longer than Mir and mark the start of continuous space habitation. Sergei V. Avdeyev, the cosmonaut and Hero of Russia who ...
Mar 23, 2021 · It was during this first period of continuous occupation that cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov became the first humans to spend over 365 days continuously in space, although as 1988 was ...
Mar 24, 2021 · Controllers allowed the engines to burn to fuel depletion as Mir passed out of radio contact with the ground. Debris of Mir streaking through the sky as seen from Fiji as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere. Mir entered the Earth’s atmosphere at an altitude of about 62 miles (100 kilometers) and began to disintegrate at about 50 miles (80 ...
Nov 11, 1988 · As commander Vladimir Titov and flight engineer Musa Manarov orbited the Earth, there was confusion in the Soviet media as to whether the duo had already broken the record of 326 days set by ...
Sep 19, 2022 · Progress 34 arrived at Mir and remained docked from January 23, 1988 - March 04, 1988. Meanwhile Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov conducted part of an ongoing survey of galaxies and star groups in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum using the Glazar telescope on Kvant. The survey required photography with exposure times up to 8 minutes.
the 365-day record set by Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on Mir from December 21, 1987, through December 21, 1988.3 Adding his previous 242-day Mir mission, Polyakov now had the distinction of having spent more time in space than any other person—a total of 607 days. Test of Kurs automatic docking system. The crew entered
