A computer-generated video shows two of the SOviet Union's never-realized space projects, the Buran spaceplane and the Mir-2 ...

Moscow plans to send the Mir space station to its end over the Pacific Ocean, prompting concerns that errant station chunks could threaten nearby nations such as Japan or Australia. The 135-ton ...

Russia Quietly Changed Its Space Station Plans. Here's What That Means The proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to a ...

Russia said it lost contact with its doomed Mir space station for almost a day, raising fears that the 130-ton contraption will become uncontrollable when space engineers ditch it next year. Mission ...

On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment. The mission also picked up NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid, who had spent a ...

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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 replaced ...

Russia, which has been pursuing its own space station in preparation for the retirement of the International Space Station ...

Reach for the stars with MIR’s fall Russian space tour. Guests will be able to tour Russia’s premier cosmonaut training facility, Star City, participate in optional cosmonaut training and meet top ...