On February 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. More Space History 👉https://trib.al/g2CsV56 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 in orbit. The Soviets use

On May 12, 2000, two Russian cosmonauts embarked on the 80th and final spacewalk at the Mir space station. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/Hfc0uNo This was also the first commercially financed spacewalk. A private company called Mircorp paid to launch two cosmonauts, Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kalery, on the so-called "MirCorp Mission." The goal was to reactivate and repair the station after it had been deserted for eight months. MirCorp decided to lease Mir from the government

A Historic Exchange in Space: STS-81 and the Mir Mission : January 12

248K views · 580 reactions | The space shuttle was designed as a cost-effective way of making travel to low Earth orbit routined, but the promise of low and cheap easy access to space had unexpected consequences. In January 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. | Spark | Facebook