On May 12, 2000, two Russian cosmonauts embarked on the 80th and final spacewalk at the Mir space station. This was also the first commercially financed spacewalk. A private company called Mircorp ...

Russia’s Mir space station is ready for its boost to a higher orbit and for long-term commercial operations following the successful docking of an unmanned Progress cargo spacecraft with fuel and ...

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Transcript: Space station crew interview. CNN conducted an exclusive interview with the first crew of the International Space Station Alpha on December 14, 2000. CNN Space Corresp ...

The Russian government will foot the 600 million rubles (20 million dollars) bill to destroy the aging Mir space station, a space construction company chief said Tuesday. Yury Seminov, president of ...

An era will end next February when the Russian space station Mir plunges into the Pacific Ocean, discarded off the coast of Australia after 15 years of close calls and amazing feats. Mir was a symbol ...

Russia said it lost contact with its doomed Mir space station for almost a day, raising fears that the 130-ton contraption will become uncontrollable when space engineers ditch it next year. Mission ...