On February 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. Discover more space history 👉 https://space-com.visitlink.me/h15Vma While this wasn't the first space station launched into orbit, it was the first one that had to be assembled piece-by-piece in space. Mir enabled the first long-duration human spaceflight missions. The current record for the longest stay in space was set aboard the Mir space station by cosmonaut Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, who spent 437 consecutive days i

Mir was a modular space station operated from 1986 to 2001, serving as a long duration laboratory for biology, physics, Earth observation, and human endurance in microgravity. It hosted crews for months at a time and became the foundation for later international cooperation in space, including the Shuttle Mir missions that led directly to the ISS era. Follow @spaceeves #Mir #SpaceStation #spacehistory | SpaceEve