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130 million debris objects in orbit, one just cracked a spacecraft window

Microscopic space debris cracked the window of China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in November 2025, delaying the crew’s return ...
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Buran Spaceplane Docking with the Mir-2 Space Station Is Like Seeing Soviet Space Ghosts

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

Russia Quietly Changed Its Space Station Plans. Here's What That Means

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

Sinking Mir doesn't weigh down some sky watchers

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 ...
Irish Examiner

State Papers: Nasa wanted to use Shannon Airport as a landing site for the space shuttle

At the time, NASA was preparing to launch the space shuttle, Atlantis, in June 1995 on a mission to dock with the Russian Mir ...