X-Nico

unusual facts about Mir space station



Marc Herring

Other pioneering achievements in the arts and advertising include producing the first television commercial created on board the International Space Station, organizing worldwide broadcast coverage of the reentry of the MIR space station and temporarily illuminating vast landscapes with live, digital multimedia projections.

STS-60

At 7:38 am EST on 2/8 February 1994, Good Morning America performed a live bi-directional audio and downlink video hookup between astronauts on board Discovery and 3 Cosmonauts on board the Soviet Space Station Mir.

Systems Tool Kit

STK has also been used by various news organizations to graphically depict current events to a wider audience, including the deorbit of Russia's Mir Space Station, the Space Shuttle Columbia diasaster, the Iridium/Cosmos collision, the asteroid 2012 DA-14 close approach and various North Korea missile tests.

Thomas Marshburn

From February 1996 to May 1997 he served as a flight surgeon for NASA personnel deployed to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center, Star City, Russia, followed by work in the Center for Flight Control in Korolyov, Russia, in support of the NASA Expedition 4 to the Mir Space Station.


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Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov

Subsequently, Aleksandrov was assigned to the prime crew of the Soyuz TM-5 mission to the Mir space station.

Heinz Wolff

Wolff was the scientific director and co-founder of Project Juno, the private British-Soviet joint venture which sent Helen Sharman to the Mir space station.

Raduga

VBK-Raduga, an unmanned reentry capsule used to return material from the Russian Mir space station

Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999

The Moon's shadow was also observed from the Russian Mir space station; during the eclipse, video from Mir was broadcast live on television.

VBK

VBK-Raduga, a reentry capsule that was used for returning materials from the Mir space station

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Steklov

In 1999 he underwent basic cosmonaut training in preparation for visiting the MIR space station as a commercial guest to work on a film, but his trip was canceled.