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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 .
| Date | October 20, 2002 |
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| Credit | Credit: Nikolai Budarin , Russian Space Research Institute , NASA |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
| A service of: |
ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |