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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 oft the needed scientitic equipment for long-term research. Using Salyut 7 as its core, Mir is capable of the ong-term housing of six cosmonauts for scientitic research. Mir, which means peace" in Russian, is the only third-generation space station in space. It has grown in the past seven years w ...