A pioneering long-duration orbital home.
Mir was a modular space station operated by the Soviet Union and later Russia from 1986 to 2001. It hosted long-duration missions, international crews, and a vast array of scientific experiments.
Mir demonstrated that humans could live and work in orbit for months to more than a year at a time, paving the way for the International Space Station.
Launch of Core Module: 1986
Deorbited: 2001
Type: Modular space station
Crews aboard Mir experienced record-breaking stays in orbit, including missions longer than a year. They conducted biology, physics, astronomy, Earth observation, and technology experiments in microgravity.