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Mir a Soviet space station, launched in 1986 and designed to be permanently manned. The name is Russian, literally ‘peace’.

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Mir Soviet and Russian space station: see space exploration ; space station .

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Mir Soviet space station orbiting the Earth. The main part of Mir launched in 1986. It weighed c.21 tonnes, and had six docking ports for the attachment of scientific modules or cargo vessels. Over the years, various modules attached to Mir, which was permanently manned by a succession of three-person crews. In 2001, Russia decommissioned the ageing space station and allowed it to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.

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