MIR
MIR was the International Space Station, before the International Space Station. It was built by the Soviet Union originally in 1986, and was intentionally de-orbited on 23rd March, 2001.
Fun Facts about MIR
MIR was the first continuously inhabited space station in orbit, and held the first record for the longest continuous human presence in space, at 3,644 days, until it was surpassed by the International Space Station back in 2010.
Valeri Polyakov, spent 437 days on the station between 1994 & 1995, making him the record holder for the longest single human spaceflight.
It was designed to store 3 residents’ long term, or larger crews in a shorter term, which peaked at ten during STS-71.
It was a important new stage for the Soviet space program’s station development, following the success of six crewed single-module stations under the Salyut programme.
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