American astronaut visitations to the Russian MIR space station extended this spirit of cooperation and diplomacy.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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