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- All activities foreseen by the Flight Test Program of
Permanent Man-Tended Modular-type MIR Station with regard
to validation of development, assembly and operation for
permanent man-tended orbital complexes, and scheduled
research activities were completed in accordance with
the approved program.
- Process of an on-orbit long duration operation of the
orbital man-tended complexes was tested, that provides
a combination of the functionality assessment and maintenance
measures with an assurance of a needed level of reliability
and safety.
- A great program of the science and application research
was fulfilled, including the International Cooperation
Program, that was considerably superior to the investigations
and experiments originally foreseen by the flight test
program.
- A transfer from the Soyuz T manned transport vehicle
to the modified Soyuz TM vehicle was made provided by
the Salyut-7 and Mir Flight Program in 1986 and 1987.
In addition since August 1989 the Progress cargo vehicle
was replaced with the modifed Progress M, and since February
2000 a new modification of the Progress M1 vehicle having
improved performances in terms of propellant reserves
delivered to the Station was added.
- The U.S. Shuttle vehicles were used into the MIR OC
Program. The Shuttle flights were performed on a commercial
basis as part of the International Space Station Assembly,
Phase I.
- Docking compartment 316ГК (to support the Shuttle activities),
outboard propulsion system (to provide roll control),
a number of deployable truss structures were added to
the MIR OC.
- A task of developing and operating the permanent on-orbit
long-duration man-tended station was first virtually resolved.
- The experience gained and solutions made formed a basis
and were used for developing the International Space Station.
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