American astronaut visitations to the Russian MIR space station extended this spirit of cooperation and diplomacy.
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The first orbital voter was astronaut David Wolf in 1997 while he was on board the Mir Space Station.
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It flew a Spacelab mission and numerous International Space Station assembly missions and rendezvoused with Russia's Mir Space Station.
His first was 17 years ago when he flew on the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
Russia promised to take Tito to the ISS after it failed to ship him to its ageing Mir space station, dumped earlier this year.
Despite promises that they would dispose of their own ageing Mir space station, the Russians reactivated it earlier this year, and President Putin has promised to support it.
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The Mir space station plunged fierily, but harmlessly, to earth.
Helen Sharman flew to the Mir space station in 1991 as part of a venture known as Project Juno, which was organised with the help of a number of British companies.
She spent a week at the Mir space station.
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We believe it has power-generating capacity which, based on the two sets of panels, that probably makes it comparable to the old Mir space station as opposed to simply the Soyuz capsule.
Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.
After all, this was 1986: IBM had just unveiled its first laptop, the Soviet Union was launching the Mir Space Station and Tom Cruise kept daring us to fly ever higher in the hit film "Top Gun".
It will be also be in roughly the same orbit as the Russian space station Mir.
Usachev could have an easier time recovering, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
For example, much of the world will be able to see the space station Mir without a telescope through the end of August.
Usachev has experience dealing with the consequences of a long-term stay in space, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
"You'd like the radiation exposure to be lower, but it is what it is, " said Dr. Norm Thagard, the first American to fly on the Russian space station Mir, who had no role in the research.
Former astronaut Jerry Linenger, who was aboard the Russian space station Mir during a dangerous fire in 1997, told the Associated Press news agency that a loss of communication with the ground "is not a terrible thing" as long as there is no crisis going on.
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He was headed to the Russian Space Station, Mir, where he would spend spend five months in orbit.
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KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- A Russian space capsule docked with the orbiting station Mir on Monday to allow a joint Russian-French-Slovak crew to embark on what could be the last mission to the aging craft.
Malenchenko traveled to Mir while it was still operational, and this marked his fourth trip to the International Space Station.
But Mir's last crew returned to earth in July following Moscow's decision to scrap the space station to concentrate its resources on the new International Space Station.
On Wednesday, top Russian space officials will meet to decide whether the new station should be launched into an orbit closer to Mir, allowing astronauts to salvage some of its equipment for the new station.
The one American attempt at a semi-permanent space station Skylab was crewed for a mere six months in the 1970s, whereas Mir has been continuously occupied since its launch.
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