The Space Shuttle Docked with Mir
Explanation:
Before there was the
International Space Station,
the reigning orbiting spaceport was Russia's Mir.
Pictured above in 1995, the United States
Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with the segmented
Mir.
During shuttle mission
STS-71, astronauts answered questions from
school students over
amateur radio and performed
science experiments
aboard
Spacelab.
The Spacelab experiments helped to increase understanding of the
effects of long-duration space flights on the
human body.
Last year, after 15 years of successful service, the decaying
Mir space station broke up as it
entered the
Earth's atmosphere.
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Jerry Bonnell
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