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OCR: Arts & Letters SpaceAGE Salyut Mir-1 Skylab Space Station Mir-1 Country: U.S.S.R. Alpha Others History of ... Launch: February 20, 1986 Gallery Intro Duration: Currently active and still in Earth's orbit. Purpose: Science. Mir is the first of the third-generation space stations and contains all of the needed scientific equipment for long-term research. Using Salyut 7 as its core, Mir is capable of the long-term housing of six cosmonauts for scientific research. Mir, which means "peace" in Russian, is the only third-generation space station in space. It has grown in the past seven years with the addition of three modules that make the complex weigh over 90 tons. Manarov, Musa K. In the Soviet Space Station Mir, Manarov and Vladimir G. Titov recorded the longest, single space trip of 366 days during 1988. He stayed another 175 days on board Mir in 1990 and had a total of 541 days in space. aboard Mir, including Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov who hold the single space " ... length record at 366 Contents Appendix Index Back Print Print Setup Exit