Mir space station (27KS)

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//end AC code </script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0" width="590" height="440"> <param name=movie value="mir.swf"> <param name=quality value=high> <param name="LOOP" value="false"> <param name="PLAY" value="false"> <embed src="mir.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="590" height="440" loop="false" play="false"> </embed> </object></noscript></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#666666" height="10" > <div align="left"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">Interactive Mir:</font></b><font color="#FFFFFF"> Orbital construction of the Mir space station.</font></font> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000" height="10" ><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">15 SPECTACULAR YEARS: 1986 - 2001</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#666666" > <div align="left"><font size="1"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_chron_1990_icon.jpg" width="100" height="100" align="top"></font></div></td> <td align="left" valign="top" bordercolor="#CCCCCC" class="tableText" > <p align="left"><font color="#000000"><b><a href="mir_chronology.html">15 SPECTACULAR YEARS: The highlights of missions to Mir</a></b></font></p> <p align="left">During its 15 years in orbit, Mir became a chapter in the history of space exploration. This section looks back at a few remarkable milestones in the station biography.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000" height="10" ><b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">MIR CLOSE CALLS</font></b></td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#666666" > <div align="left"><font size="1"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_chron_1987_icon.jpg" width="100" height="100" align="top"></font></div></td> <td align="left" valign="top" bordercolor="#CCCCCC" class="tableText" > <p align="left"><font color="#000000"><b><a href="mir_close_calls.html">A PERILOUS JOURNEY: Dangerous situations during missions to Mir</a></b></font></p> <p align="left">Alhtough Mir allowed almost permanent human presence in space and space flight itself seem routine, not once Russian cosmonauts and thier guests were risking their lives in the situations which nobody had expirienced before. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bordercolor="#CCCCCC" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2" bgcolor="#000000" height="10" > <div align="left"><font color="#FFFFFF" size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>MIR MODULES </b></font></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100" bgcolor="#666666" height="100" align="left" valign="top"> <p align="center"><font size="1"><a href="mir_core.html"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_core_icon.jpg" width="100" height="100" border="0"></a></font></p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="tableText"> <p><b><font color="#000000"><a href="mir_core.html">Core Module: Birth of a colony</a></font></b> </p> <p>On February 20, 1986, the Proton booster launched the core module of the Mir space station. The official Soviet news reports released immediately after the launch said that the spacecraft is eqipped with six docking ports and will serve as core of the future multi-modular orbital station.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="100" height="100" align="left" valign="top"> <p><font size="1"><a href="mir_kvant.html"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_kvant_icon.gif" width="100" height="100" border="0" align="top"></a></font></p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" class="tableText"> <p><b><a href="mir_kvant.html">Kvant-1: Something old, something new</a></b></p> <p>Origianally designed for the Salyut-7, the Mir predecessor, the Kvant module stuck on the ground until the new station is ready. The the oldest Mir's module was carrying the first set of gyrodines, a complex mechanical wheels, which for the first time allowing Soviet orbital station to maintain its attitude in space without firing its thrusters and consuming precious propellant. Kvant-1 also brought a deployable solar panel, which would be installed on the station's exterior.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="100" height="100" align="left" valign="top"><a href="mir_kvant-2.html"><font size="1"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_kvant-2_icon.jpg" width="100" height="100" border="0"></font></a></td> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="tableText"> <p><font color="#000000"><b><a href="mir_kvant-2.html">Kvant-2: Orbital hallway</a></b></font></p> <p>Kvant-2, launched in 1989, was the first of the four Mir modules based on a TKS transport spacecraft. The TKS was developed in the 1970s for the Almaz military orbital station. After the Almaz program had been abandoned in 1981, KB Salyut, the TKS developer, convinced the Soviet leadership to use the hardware from Almaz program for yet-to-be-launched Salyut-7 and Mir space stations.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="100" height="100" align="left" valign="top"><a href="mir_kristall.html"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_kristall_icon.gif" width="100" height="100" border="0"></a></td> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="tableText"> <p><font color="#000000"><b> <a href="mir_kristall.html">Kristall: Buran's doorway</a></b></font></p> <p>The Kristall Module was designed to carry furnaces and other payloads for experiments onboard Mir. The module was also equipped by a transfer compartment with a so-called adrogynous docking port, which would allow reusable shuttle Buran to dock with the station. Although this mission has never taken place, the US Shuttle used this docking port to visit the station.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="100" height="100" align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_spektr.gif" width="100" height="100"></td> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="tableText"> <p><font color="#000000"><b><a href="mir_spektr.html">Spektr: From swords to ploughshares </a></b></font></p> <p>Originally designed for military experiments, the Spektr remained grounded years after its original launch date due to financial problems in the former Soviet Union. The help came from NASA, which paid for the "reorientation" of the module to the scientific research in orbit.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="100" height="100" align="left" valign="top"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_priroda_icon.gif" width="100" height="100"></td> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="tableText"> <p><font color="#000000"><b><a href="mir_priroda.html">Priroda: Mission to Planet Earth</a> </b></font></p> <p>Priroda (Nature) conceived for remote-sensing research from orbit, was also sitting on the ground partially completed until Russian-US cooperation revived the project. It became the last element, which completed the construction of Mir.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#666666" width="100" height="100" align="left" valign="top"> <p align="center"><img src="images/spacecraft/manned/space_stations/mir/mir_docking_icon.gif" width="100" height="100"></p> </td> <td align="left" valign="top" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" class="tableText"> <p><font color="#000000"><b><a href="mir_docking.html">Docking Compartment: From Shuttle to Mir</a> </b></font></p> <p>In its second mission to Mir in 1995, the US Shuttle delivered Russian-built docking compartment, which was attached to the Buran's docking port on the Kristall module. The docking compartment provided clearance between Shuttle and solar panels on Mir during docking. Without it, Kristall would have to be relocated to the core's module front docking port, each time Shuttle arrives to the station.</p> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="40" vspace="0" hspace="0" align="center" bordercolor="0"> <tr bgcolor="#999999"> <td><img src="images/footer2.gif" width="600" height="40" align="right" vspace="0" hspace="0" usemap="#Map" border="0"><map name="Map"><area shape="rect" coords="8,2,110,36" href="index.html"><area shape="rect" coords="509,3,555,37" href="#top" target="_self"></map></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>

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