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 ...

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

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 ...

KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) — Russia s deteriorating Mir space station received what was probably its final visitor on Saturday: A cargo ship laden with fuel to propel the 15-year-old orbiting lab on a ...

In our feature about the Mir cosmonauts' reentry preparations, we learn that Russia plans to complete a crew changeout the week our issue dated Mar. 23, 1992, was published. A pair of Russian ...

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 ...

I’ve heard that the Mir space station was being consumed by a mysterious steel- and plastic-eating space fungus and that this was why whole sections of it were closed off. Is there any truth to this?

On June 6, 1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record at the time of 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes while aboard the Russian space station Mir. Thagard, a veteran of ...

On April 28, 2001, the world's first space tourist hitched a ride to the International Space Station on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The 60-year-old businessman and multimillionaire Dennis Tito funded ...