langs: 30 марта [ru] / march 30 [en] / 30. märz [de] / 30 mars [fr] / 30 marzo [it] / 30 de marzo [es]
days: march 27 / march 28 / march 29 / march 30 / march 31 / april 1 / april 2
Cosmonaut / Cosmonaut
#1 John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American Marine Corps aviator , engineer , astronaut , businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth , circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA
- ... year. Glenn did not want to win solely due to his astronaut fame, so he dropped out of the race on march 30. [124] [125] Glenn was still on leave from the Marine Corps, and he withdrew his papers to retire so ...
#2 Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) [2] is a British billionaire, entrepreneur, and business magnate . [3] [4] [5] In the 1970s he founded the Virgin Group , which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields. [6] British entrepreneur and business magnate Not to be c
- ... for his "services to entrepreneurship". [166] [167] He was knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales on 30 march 2000 at an investiture in Buckingham Palace . [168] Also in 2000, Branson received the Tony Jannus ...
#3 Kathryn D. Sullivan
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan (born October 3, 1951) is an American geologist and oceanographer , and a former NASA astronaut and US Navy officer. She was a crew member on three Space Shuttle missions. "Kathryn Sullivan" redirects here. For other uses, see Kathryn Sullivan (disambiguation) . American geolo
- ... Oscar statuette for the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award that film maker George Lucas received on march 30, the presentation being made by the STS-45 crew from Earth orbit. [36] Sullivan had special responsi ...
#4 Mark T. Vande Hei
Mark Thomas Vande Hei (born November 10, 1966) is a retired United States Army officer and current NASA astronaut [2] who has served as a flight Engineer for Expedition 53 , 54 , 64 , 65 , and 66 on the International Space Station . [3] [4] American engineer and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei Born (
- ... harvests plants grown on petri plates during Expedition 66 He returned to Earth with Soyuz MS-19 on march 30, 2022, having spent a total of 355 days in space on a mission to better observe the effects of long- ...
- ... t were placed upon Russia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine . [21] [22] He landed as planned on march 30. [19] Six months after returning from his 355 days in space, Mark returned to his high school, Benil ...
- ... nde Hei, who arrived at the ISS on Soyuz MS-18, joined Shkaplerov on the landing of Soyuz MS-19, on march 30, 2022. [27] [28] MOVIE SHOT ON ISS Klim Shipenko shot about 35–40 minutes of film on the ISS, as wel ...
#5 Shannon Lucid
Shannon Wells Lucid (born January 14, 1943) is an American biochemist and retired NASA astronaut . At one time, she held the record for the longest duration stay in space by an American and by a woman. She has flown in space five times including a prolonged mission aboard the Russian Mir space stati
- ... ha joined fellow astronauts Bonnie Dunbar and Norman Thagard for Mir training in Star City. [58] On march 30, 1995, NASA announced that Lucid would be the second astronaut to stay on board Mir , [59] after Tha ...
#6 Joseph M. Prahl
Joseph M. Prahl (March 30, 1943 – April 19, 2018) was an American mechanical engineer and professor who trained as a backup Payload Specialist for the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-50 in 1992. Joseph M. Prahl Born March 30, 1943 Beverly, Massachusetts Died April 19, 2018 Nationality American Ot
- Joseph M. Prahl ( march 30, 1943 – April 19, 2018) was an American mechanical engineer and professor who trained as a backup Pa ...
- ... ckup Payload Specialist for the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-50 in 1992. Joseph M. Prahl Born march 30, 1943 Beverly, Massachusetts Died April 19, 2018 Nationality American Other names Joseph Markel Prah ...
#7 Anton Shkaplerov
Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov ( Russian : Антон Николаевич Шкаплеров ; born 20 February 1972) is a Russian cosmonaut . He is a veteran of four spaceflights. [1] Russian cosmonaut Anton Nikolaevich Shkaplerov Anton Shkaplerov in August 2017 as taken by Bill Ingalls Born ( 1972-02-20 ) 20 February 1972
- ... figure the Prichal module to support visiting Soyuz and Progress vehicles. [8] Shkaplerov landed on 30 march 2022, with Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei . [9] STATISTICS # ...
- ... 18 minutes 1 8 hours 13 minutes 4 Soyuz MS-19 5 October 2021, 08:55 UTC ISS-65 / ISS-66 Soyuz MS-19 30 march 2022, 11:28:26 UTC 176 days 2 hours 33 minutes 1 7 hours 11 minutes Source: [10] 709 days 8 hours 4 ...
#8 Pyotr Dubrov
Pyotr Valerievich Dubrov ( Russian : Пётр Валерьевич Дубров ; born 30 January 1978) is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut selected by Roscosmos in 2012. Russian engineer and cosmonaut This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification . ( March 2010 ) Pyotr Dubrov Born ( 197
- ... rnational Space Station . [5] He returned to Earth along with Mark T. Vande Hei with Soyuz MS-19 on march 30, 2022, having spent a total of 355 days in space. [6] CINEMATOGRAPHY On May 14, 2021, the Interagenc ...
- ... nde Hei, who arrived at the ISS on Soyuz MS-18, joined Shkaplerov on the landing of Soyuz MS-19, on march 30, 2022. [15] [16] MOVIE PORTION SHOT ON ISS Klim Shipenko shot about 35–40 minutes of film on the ISS ...
#9 Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa ( Mongolian : Жүгдэрдэмидийн Гүррагчаа ; Russian : Жугдэрдэмидийн Гуррагча , [ˈʐuɡdʲɪrdʲɪmʲɪdʲɪjn ˈɡurəktɕə] , born 5 December 1947) is a Mongolian cosmonaut and military leader. He was the first Mongolian and second Asian to go into space. [1] [2] He also was Mongolia's De
- ... lian , Gürragchaa is fluent in Russian due to his time in Russia . AWARDS Hero of the Soviet Union ( 30 march 1981) [10] Order of Lenin Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic (1981) Order of Sukhbaatar (1981) ...
#10 Oleg Novitsky
Oleg Viktorovich Novitskiy ( Russian : Олег Викторович Новицкий ; born October 12, 1971 in Chervyen , Belarus ) is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Air Force who logged over 700 hours of flight time and was awarded for bravery. He is currently serving as a Russian cosmonaut with Roscosmos
- ... ISS on Soyuz MS-18, joined Shkaplerov on the return of Soyuz MS-19. [11] [12] Soyuz MS-19 landed on 30 march 2022. [13] MOVIE PORTION TO BE SHOT ON ISS Klim Shipenko shot about 35-40 minutes of film on the IS ...
#11 Jack R. Lousma
Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29, 1936) is an American astronaut , aeronautical engineer , retired United States Marine Corps officer , former naval aviator , NASA astronaut , and politician. He was a member of the second crew, Skylab-3 , on the Skylab space station in 1973. In 1982, he commande
- ... ot for Skylab-3 from July 28 to September 25, 1973, and was commander on STS-3, from March 22 until march 30, 1982, logging a total of over 1,619 hours in space. [12] Lousma also spent 11 hours on two spacewal ...
- ... nd after a one-day delay due to bad weather, landed on the lake bed at White Sands, New Mexico , on march 30, 1982, the only shuttle flight to land there. Columbia traveled 5,500,000 km (3,400,000 mi) during 1 ...
#12 Yelena Kondakova
Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova ( Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва ; born March 30, 1957) is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. [2] Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned t
- Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova ( Russian: Елена Владимировна Кондакóва ; born march 30, 1957) is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to mak ...
- ... on (ISS) on September 25, 2014. Russian cosmonaut Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova Born ( 1957-03-30 ) march 30, 1957 (age 65) Mytishchi , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union Status Retired Occupation Politician Awards H ...
#13 Marcos Pontes
Marcos Cesar Pontes (born 11 March 1963) is a Brazilian Air Force pilot, engineer , AEB astronaut and author. He became the first South American and the first Lusophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on March 30, 2006. He is the only Brazilian
- ... usophone to go into space when he docked onto the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-8 on march 30, 2006. He is the only Brazilian to have completed the NASA astronaut training program, although he s ...
- ... er Alberto Santos-Dumont 's successful flight of a fixed-wing airplane in Paris in October 1906. On march 30, 2006, Pontes became the first Brazilian and the first native Portuguese-speaking person to go into ...
#14 Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi ( / s ɪ ˈ m oʊ n i / ; Hungarian : Simonyi Károly , pronounced [ˈʃimoɲi ˈkaːroj] ; born September 10, 1948) is a Hungarian-American software architect . He started and led Microsoft 's applications group, where he built the first versions of Microsoft Office . [1] Hungarian-America
- ... ril 17, 2007. On board with him were Oleg Kotov and Fyodor Yurchikhin . [47] [ citation needed ] On march 30, 2009 he held a phone conversation with students at the Girls' Middle School in Mountain View, Calif ...
#15 Shane Kimbrough
Robert Shane Kimbrough (born June 4, 1967) is a retired United States Army officer and NASA astronaut . He was part of the first group of candidates selected for NASA astronaut training following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster . Kimbrough is a veteran of three spaceflights, the first being a Sp
- ... . [8] Kimbrough photographed during a meal with crew members Andrei Borisenko and Oleg Novitskiy On march 30, 2017, Kimbrough performed his sixth EVA with Peggy Whitson . During the EVA they connected the PMA- ...
Spacecraft / Spacecraft
#1 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( AMS-02 ) is a particle physics experiment module that is mounted on the International Space Station (ISS). [4] The experiment is a recognized CERN experiment (RE1). [5] [6] The module is a detector that measures antimatter in cosmic rays ; this information is needed
- ... , providing evidence about the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) model of dark matter. On march 30, 2013, the first results from the AMS experiment were announced by the CERN press office. [11] [12] ...
#2 STS-2
STS-2 was the second Space Shuttle mission conducted by NASA , and the second flight of the orbiter Columbia . The mission, crewed by Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly , launched on November 12, 1981, and landed two days later on November 14, 1981. [1] STS-2 marked the first time that a crewed, reus
- ... He was supposed to visit during STS-1 , but was forced to cancel due to an assassination attempt on march 30, 1981. Although the STS-2 mission had been planned for a duration of five days, with a few hours a d ...
#3 SpaceX CRS-8
SpaceX CRS-8 , also known as SpX-8 , [5] was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS) which was launched on April 8, 2016, at 20:43 UTC. It was the 23rd flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, the tenth flight of a Dragon cargo spacecraft and the eighth operational missi
- ... B1021 ) from this mission became the first one to be flown again, launching the SES-10 satellite on march 30, 2017. [9] LAUNCH SCHEDULE HISTORY Falcon 9 lifting off from SLC-40 on April 8, 2016. The launch was ...
- ... , SpaceX posted a photo of a static fire test of this stage in Texas. [21] It was launched again on march 30, 2017, as part of Falcon 9 Flight 32 carrying the SES-10 communications satellite. The stage was als ...
#4 LOFTI-1
LOFTI-1 was an American satellite which was launched in 1961 and operated by the United States Navy and Naval Research Laboratory . [2] It was used to conduct research into the propagation of very low frequency radio signals in the ionosphere , [3] and to investigate if these signals could be receiv
- ... Rocket Thor DM-21 Ablestar 313 (AB-007) Launch site Cape Canaveral LC-17B End of mission Decay date 30 march 1961 ( 1961-03-31 ) Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Low Earth Perigee altitud ...
- ... utes. Due to the low perigee of its orbit, LOFTI-1 decayed quickly, and reentered the atmosphere on 30 march 1961, less than 37 days after launch. [6] Despite being in the wrong orbit and operating for less t ...
#5 SES-10
SES-10 , is a geostationary communications satellite awarded in February 2014, owned and operated by SES S.A. and designed and manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space on the Eurostar-3000 satellite bus . [4] [5] It is positioned at the 67° West position thanks to an agreement with the Andean Commun
- ... bus Defence and Space Launch mass 5,282 kg (11,645 lb) [2] Power 13 kW Start of mission Launch date 30 march 2017, 22:27:00 UTC [3] Rocket Falcon 9 Full Thrust Launch site Kennedy Space Center , LC-39A Contra ...
- ... Brazil , and Spanish-speaking South America . [5] [8] After several delays, SES-10 was launched on 30 march 2017 aboard a Falcon 9 Full Thrust . The launch marked the first time in aerospace history that an ...
- ... launch aboard a Falcon 9 Full Thrust launch vehicle no earlier than the fourth quarter of 2016. On 30 march 2017, the launch from Pad LC-39A , Kennedy Space Center , Cape Canaveral , Florida , became the fir ...
#6 Soyuz TMA-8
Soyuz TMA-8 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle. 2006 Russian crewed spaceflight to the ISS Soyuz TMA-8 Operator Roscosmos COSPAR ID 2006-009A SATCAT no. 28996 Mission duration 182 days Spacecraft properties Spacecraft type Soyuz-TMA 11F
- ... illiams Launching Marcos Pontes Landing Anousheh Ansari Callsign Carat Start of mission Launch date march 30, 2006, 02:30 ( 2006-03-30UTC02:30Z ) UTC Rocket Soyuz-FG Launch site Baikonur 1/5 End of mission Lan ...
- ... raft 29th crewed flight to ISS (Flight 12S) Soyuz TMA-8 is a Soyuz spacecraft which was launched on march 30, 2006 by a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome . Near the end of second stage burn, a commu ...
- ... tember 28, 2006, 21:53 UTC (from nadir port of Zarya ) MISSION HIGHLIGHTS The Soyuz TMA-8 launch on 30 march 2006. Jeffrey Williams inside the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft 29th crewed flight to ISS (Flight 12S) Soy ...
#7 Soyuz MS-19
Soyuz MS-19 was a Soyuz spaceflight which launched on 5 October 2021, at 08:55:02 UTC . [2] It was the 147th flight of a crewed Soyuz spacecraft. The launching crew consisted of Russian commander Anton Shkaplerov , Russian film director Klim Shipenko and Russian actress Yulia Peresild . [3] Shipenko
- ... e Baikonur Cosmodrome , Site 31 Contractor Progress Rocket Space Centre End of mission Landing date 30 march 2022, 11:28:26 UTC [1] Landing site 147 km southeast of Zhezkazgan Orbital parameters Reference sys ...
- ... ocking with ISS Docking port Rassvet nadir Docking date 5 October 2021, 12:22:31 UTC Undocking date 30 march 2022 07:21:03 UTC Time docked 175 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes Shipenko, Peresild and Shkaplerov S ...
- ... h on 17 October 2021, on Soyuz MS-18, with Commander Oleg Novitskiy. [6] [31] Soyuz MS-19 landed on 30 march 2022. [32] After the successful landing of Soyuz MS-18, Dmitry Rogozin revealed that Konstantin Ern ...
- ... ats. [33] Soyuz MS-19 Landing Cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and astronaut Mark Vande Hei finally landed on 30 march 2022, on Soyuz MS-19, with commander Anton Skhaplerov. [31]
#8 Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor ( MGS ) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched November 1996. MGS was a global mapping mission that examined the entire planet, from the ionosphere down through the atmosphere to the surface. [2] As part of the larger Mars
- ... e began. 1 February 2002: Second extended mission phase began. 1 January 2003: Relay mission began. 30 march 2004: MGS photographed the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit along with its wheel tracks showing its fi ...
#9 Soyuz MS-21
Soyuz MS-21 was a Russian Soyuz spaceflight to the International Space Station (ISS) with a crew of three launched from Baikonur on 18 March 2022. The launch was previously planned for 30 March 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the launch o
- ... with a crew of three launched from Baikonur on 18 March 2022. The launch was previously planned for 30 march 2022, but in the provisional flight manifest prepared by Roscosmos by the end of Summer 2020, the l ...
#10 Long March 4C
The Long March 4C , also known as the Chang Zheng 4C , CZ-4C and LM-4C , previously designated Long March 4B-II , is a Chinese orbital launch vehicle . It is launched from the Jiuquan , Taiyuan , and Xichang Satellite Launch Centers , and consists of 3 stages. Long March 4C vehicles have been used t
- ... 2 Y42 13 March 2021 02:19 JSLC , SLS-2 Yaogan 31-04A Yaogan 31-04B Yaogan 31-04C LEO Success 33 Y36 30 march 2021 22:45 JSLC , SLS-2 Gaofen 12-02 SSO Success 34 Y34 30 April 2021 07:27 JSLC , SLS-2 Yaogan 34 ...
#11 Kosmos 917
Kosmos 917 ( Russian : Космос 917 meaning Cosmos 917 ) was a Soviet US-K missile early warning satellite which was launched in 1977 as part of the Soviet military's Oko programme. The satellite was designed to identify missile launches using optical telescopes and infrared sensors . [2] Kosmos 917 M
- ... ) UTC Rocket Molniya-M / 2BL [2] Launch site Plesetsk Cosmodrome [2] [3] End of mission Deactivated 30 march 1979 [1] Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric Regime Molniya [2] Perigee altitude 620 kil ...
#12 Soyuz 39
Soyuz 39 was a 1981 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station . It was the fifteenth expedition, and carried the eighth international crew to the orbiting facility. [1] The crew visited Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh , who had reached Salyut-6 ten days prior. Soyuz 39 COSPAR
- ... ( 1981-03-22UTC14:58:55Z ) UTC Rocket Soyuz-U Launch site Baikonur 1/5 End of mission Landing date 30 march 1981, 11:40:58 ( 1981-03-30UTC11:40:59Z ) UTC Landing site 175 km SE of Dzhezkazgan Orbital paramet ...
#13 Progress M-29M
Progress M-29M ( Russian : Прогресс М-29М ), identified by NASA as Progress 61P was a Progress spaceflight by Roskosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) in 2015. It was launched on 1 October 2015, to deliver cargo to the ISS. Progress M-29M is the final vehicle in Progress-M series,
- ... ber 2015 Docking with ISS Docking port Zvezda Docking date 1 October 2015, 22:52 UTC Undocking date 30 march 2016, 14:14 UTC Time docked 181 days Cargo Mass 2369 kg Pressurised 1549 kg Fuel 350 kg Gaseous 50 ...
- ... zda docking compartment on 1 October 2015 at 22:52 UTC. The spacecraft undocked from the station on 30 march 2016 at 14:14 UTC. CARGO The Progress M-29M spacecraft carried 2369 kg of cargo and supplies to the ...
#14 SpaceX CRS-3
SpaceX CRS-3 , also known as SpX-3 , [4] was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the International Space Station (ISS), contracted to NASA , which was launched on 18 April 2014. It was the fifth flight for SpaceX 's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft and the third SpaceX operational mission contr
- ... which required several spacewalks to mitigate. [14] On 12 March 2014, the launch was rescheduled to 30 march or 2 April 2014, for a variety of reasons including data buffering issues, working some issues with ...
#15 Soyuz 32
Soyuz 32 ( Russian : Союз 32 , Union 32 ) was a 1979 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station . [1] It was the eighth mission to and seventh successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 32 crew was the third long-duration crew to man the space station. Soyuz 32 COSPAR ID 19
- ... ered to have great psychological importance, especially as longer flights were contemplated. [3] On 30 march , Progress 5 boosted the station's orbit, then Soyuz 32 boosted the orbit again 6 April in preparati ...
#16 PicSat
PicSat is a French observatory nanosatellite , designed to measure the transit of Beta Pictoris b , an exoplanet which orbits the star Beta Pictoris . This article needs additional citations for verification . ( September 2021 ) This article is about the French CubeSat launched in 2018. For the Amer
- ... 0 weeks before contact was lost on 20 March 2018. [1] Attempts to reestablish contact were made. On march 30, it was believed contact was restored by a team at Morehead State University , but the signal receiv ...
#17 CoRoT
CoRoT (French: Co nvection, Ro tation et T ransits planétaires ; English: Co nvection, Ro tation and planetary T ransits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly those
- ... , from 6 October 2008 to 12 November 2008 – 10,265 stars observed; LRa02 , from 12 November 2008 to 30 march 2009 – 11,408 stars observed; LRc03 , from 30 March 2009 to 2 July 2009 – 5,661 stars observed; LRc ...
- ... tars observed; LRa02 , from 12 November 2008 to 30 March 2009 – 11,408 stars observed; LRc03 , from 30 march 2009 to 2 July 2009 – 5,661 stars observed; LRc04 , from 2 July 2009 to 30 September 2009 – 5,716 s ...
#18 USA-90
USA-90 , also known as GPS IIA-10 , GPS II-19 and GPS SVN-31 , was an American navigation satellite which formed part of the Global Positioning System . It was the tenth of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched. USA-90 Names Navstar 2A-10 GPS IIA-10 GPS II-19 GPS SVN-31 Mission type Navig
- ... ass 840 kg (1,850 lb) Dimensions 5.3 m (17 ft) of long Power 710 watts Start of mission Launch date 30 march 1993, 03:09:00 UTC Rocket Delta II 7925-9.5 (Delta D219) Launch site Cape Canaveral , LC-17A Contra ...
- ... nels deployed and had a design life of 7.5 years. [1] LAUNCH USA-90 was launched at 03:09:00 UTC on 30 march 1993, atop a Delta II launch vehicle , flight number D219, flying in the 7925-9.5 configuration. [4 ...
#19 Kounotori 2
Kounotori 2 (こうのとり2号機, "white stork" [7] ), also known as HTV-2 , was launched in January 2011 and was the second flight of the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). [8] It was launched by the H-IIB Launch Vehicle No. 2 (H-IIB F2) manufactured by Mitsubish
- ... ori 2 was then unberthed and separated from the ISS and burned up upon reentering the atmosphere on 30 march 2011. 2011 Japanese resupply spaceflight to the ISS Kounotori 2 Kounotori 2 approaches the ISS on 2 ...
- ... a , Yoshinobu 2 Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries End of mission Disposal Deorbited Decay date 30 march 2011, 03:09 UTC Orbital parameters Reference system Geocentric orbit [4] Regime Low Earth orbit Inc ...
- ... 5:29 UTC and released at 15:46 UTC. [20] It reentered the Earth's atmosphere at around 03:09 UTC on 30 march . [21] The reentry was logged by a Reentry Breakup Recorder , one of two carried to the station; the ...
#20 Mir
Mir ( Russian : Мир , IPA: [ˈmʲir] ; lit. ' peace ' or ' world ' ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia . Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater
- ... -2 , launched on Soyuz TM-2 on 5 February 1987. During their stay, the Kvant -1 module, launched on 30 march 1987, arrived. It was the first experimental version of a planned series of '37K' modules scheduled ...