The spacecraft had been launched in 1980 to study solar flares ... when space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir. During this historic STS-71 mission, Atlantis delivered ...

On this date, Jan. 23, 1998, shuttle Endeavor soared around the planet on its way to the shuttle program's penultimate mission to the Russian Mir Space Station. On that mission, Andy Thomas ...

In 1987, the Kvant-1 module was launched to the Mir space station. Rather than having its own control system, it was delivered to the station by a Functional Service Module – derived from the FGB.

China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021 ... Space Station or even its Soviet predecessor, Mir. One module contains a common area where the ...

Recently, the Russians launched a rocket from the R-7 family ... Russia was able to maintain cosmonauts in space after the Mir space station ended its operational life. Russia might have offered ...

When fully constructed the Space Station will consist of approximately 70 separate major components and hundreds of minor ones that are due to be launched into space by the year 2004. Some of the ...

If Putin were to come to terms with Ukraine, ending his war of conquest, Trump could offer Russia a role in the Artemis program in exchange. The incoming U.S. president could point out that Russia has ...