The Shuttle–Mir program (Russian: Программа «Мир»–«Шаттл») was a collaborative space program between Russia and the United States that involved American...
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Euromir and Shuttle–Mir programmes, the station was made accessible to space travellers from several Asian, European and North American nations. Mir was deorbited...
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as a launch vehicle. The Buran programme was started by the Soviet Union as a response to the United States Space Shuttle program and benefited from extensive...
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Station as Pirs). When the Shuttle-Mir programme began, engineers realised that in order to enable US space shuttles to dock to Mir, the Kristall module would...
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centres on astronaut Jerry Linenger and the events on the Shuttle and Mir Space Programme in 1997. Personnel covered in the book Astronaut Jerry Linenger...
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Compton Gamma Ray Observatory The Earth Radiation Budget Satellite The Mir Shuttle Docking Node Carried satellites with a booster, such as the Payload Assist...
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Following the success of the Salyut programme, Mir represented the next stage in the Soviet Union's space station programme. The first module of the station...
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Shuttle to the Mir space station. It was a partnership with stark contrasts – Russia needed an inflow of hard currency to keep their space programme aloft...
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European Astronaut Corps (redirect from European space agency astronaut programme)
from Europe have flown to Mir both on board Soyuz vehicles (as part of the Euromir programme) or on board the Space Shuttle. Jean-Loup Chrétien – Aragatz...
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United States would be involved in the Mir programme, including American Shuttles docking, in the Shuttle–Mir programme. The legal structure that regulates...
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Following the success of the Salyut programme, Mir represented the next stage in the Soviet Union's space station programme. The first module of the station...
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Buran (spacecraft) (redirect from Buran Shuttle)
used during the Shuttle-Mir program. The Onboard Manipulator System (Система Бортовых Манипуляторов), similar to the Space Shuttle's RMS, was developed...
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United States would be involved in the Mir programme, including American Shuttles docking, in the Shuttle–Mir Programme. The Russian Orbital Segment (ROS or...
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rejected on basis of cost. Buran programme Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar X-37 Dream Chaser List of launch vehicle designs "Saturn Shuttle". www.astronautix.com. Archived...
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Soyuz TM-22 (redirect from Mir EO-20)
duration Mir crew as part of the European Mission "Euromir 95". While docked with Mir, the Soyuz was joined by Progress M-29, Space Shuttle Atlantis as...
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The Buran programme was an attempt by the Soviet Union to construct an orbital spaceplane to perform similar functions to the Space Shuttle. Similar to...
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Soyuz TM-21 (redirect from Mir EO-18)
spacecraft and board Mir, Norman Thagard, for the American Thagard Increment aboard the station, which was the first Increment of the Shuttle-Mir program. The...
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Euromir (category Mir)
US Space Shuttle and the Russia Mir space station would give ESA astronauts experience in space (ESA's Columbus Precursor Flights programme) and help...
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STS-71 (category Space Shuttle missions)
mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, STS-71 became the first Space Shuttle to dock with the Russian space station Mir. STS-71 began on June 27...
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Ptichka (redirect from Shuttle 1.02)
profile included: Uncrewed launch; Automatic docking with Mir's Kristall module; Crew transfer from Mir to the spaceplane, with onboard systems testing in course...
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Salyut 5B (1989) Spaceflight portal Salyut Shuttle–Mir Program Zvezda (ISS module) "The Final Days of Mir". The Aerospace Corporation. Archived from the...
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The Soyuz programme (/ˈsɔɪjuːz/ SOY-yooz, /ˈsɔː-/ SAW-; Russian: Союз [sɐˈjus], meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet...
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Jean-François Clervoy (category Mir crew members)
(May 15 – 24, 1997) was NASA's sixth Shuttle mission to rendezvous and dock with the Russian Space Station Mir. Assigned as payload commander, Clervoy's...
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Michael Foale (category Mir crew members)
and is the only NASA astronaut to have flown extended missions aboard both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the second Briton in space and...
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History of spaceflight (section Mir)
mission which became the basis for the Shuttle-Mir program and eventually the International Space Station programme. Such international cooperation, and...
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and discarded Space Shuttle external tanks. Spacecraft may change mass over time such as by use of propellant. During the Shuttle–Mir program between 1994...
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Soviet Interkosmos program, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union the Shuttle–Mir program would follow in these footsteps in the mid-1990s and eventually...
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Andy Thomas (category Mir crew members)
Thomas launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour as part of the STS-89 crew to dock with the Mir Space Station. He served aboard Mir as flight engineer 2 and...
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List of Soyuz missions (category Mir)
spacecraft previously visited the Salyut and Mir space stations. Between the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011 and the first orbital flight of SpaceX's...
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Anatoly Levchenko (category Mir crew members)
(2007-10-04). Energiya-Buran : The Soviet Space Shuttle. Praxis. p. 526. ISBN 978-0-387-69848-9. "Mir LII-1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from...
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