About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 82. Chapters: Dyson sphere, Space station, International Space Station, Herman Poto nik, Space habitat, Mir, Bernal sphere, Stanford torus, Salyut 6, Bigelow Commercial Space Station, Salyut 7, Genesis II, Salyut 3, Manned Orbiting Laboratory, Galactic Suite Design, Project 921-2, Sundancer, TransHab, TKS, Salyut 1, BA 330, Island Three, Almaz, Salyut 5, Inflatable space habitat, S-IVB, Salyut 2, Salyut 4, Spektr, Russian Orbital Segment, Excalibur Almaz, Wet workshop, Project Boreas, Galaxy, Rotating wheel space station, Mir-2, Skylab B, Tiangong 1, Space Industries Incorporated, BA 2100, Kosmos 557, Orbital Technologies Commercial Space Station, Bishop Ring, DOS-2, McKendree cylinder, US Orbital Segment, Tiangong 3, Tiangong 2, Space Island Project, Lunar Orbital Station. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Mir (Russian: , IPA: lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station, operational in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. With a greater mass than that of any previous space station, Mir was the first of the third generation of space stations, constructed from 1986 to 1996 with a modular design, and the largest artificial satellite orbiting the Earth until its deorbit on 21 March 2001, a record now surpassed by the International Space Station (ISS). Mir served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and spacecraft systems in order to develop technologies required for the permanent occupation of space. The station was the first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space and was operated by a series of long-duration crews. The Mir programme held the record for the longest uninterrupted human presence in space, 3,644 days, until 23 October 2010 when it was surpassed by the ISS, and it currently holds the recor...
