Transcription: While NASA counted the cost of the shuttle disaster, the Soviet Union pushed forward its long-term endurance program, launching Mir, a new generation space station. In February 1986, Mir reached orbit to be visited a month later by the Soyuz T-15 crew. It was the first of many flights which would eventually see the station permanently occupied. America's Freedom Space Station was still struggling to become a reality, bogged down by bureaucratic wrangling, leaving the Soviet Union with an undeniable lead in manned spaceflight once again.
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