Mir Docking Module
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The Mir Docking Module, formally known as the Stykovochnyy Otsek, was the sixth module of the Russian space station Mir, launched in November 1995 aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis. The module, built
The docking module seen in the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-74, prior to docking with Mir.
Interior of Docking Module
Interior view of Rassvet, compared to the Mir Docking Module above
Rassvet is a mirror image of the Mir Docking Module
Mir
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Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit
Mir seen from Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-89 (28 January 1998)
The Travers radar antenna, Sofora girder, VDU thruster block, SPK unit and a Strela crane, alongside Kvant-2 and Priroda
The four solar arrays on Spektr
Reinhold Ewald (right) and Vasily Tsibliyev in the core module during Ewald's visit to Mir