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ANGELA CHARLTON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-25-1999
Mir's Demise Caps Soviet Space Era

MOSCOW (AP) -- Alexander Sperin left his father's birthday party early to help monitor the blastoff of the Soviets' biggest space station, just before midnight Moscow time on Feb. 19, 1986. They called it Mir, or ``peace,'' in a bit of Cold War irony.

Some dubbed it the beginning of a city in space. But Sperin, now a deputy flight controller at Russian Mission Control, remembers wondering: Can this thing really last three years in orbit, as its designers claim?

It could, and then some. On ...

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