Diagram Of Mir Space Station. You will need the free adobe acrobat viewer available on this cd under search. Seen here is the mir core module with a soyuz spacecraft docked to it left.
With the new international space station requiring much of the russian space programs attention and financing the mir space station was doomed to be deorbited. Mir space station diagrams. The trusses are used to support the solar arrays and radiators.
Diagram of mir space station.
You will need the free adobe acrobat viewer available on this cd under search. Salyut 7 marked a transition from monolithic one module to the modular design that was utilized in the later mir and iss stations. Seen here is the mir core module with a soyuz spacecraft docked to it left. In the early 1980s nasa planned to launch a modular space station called freedom as a counterpart to the soviet salyut and mir space stationsin 1984 the esa was invited to participate in space station freedom and the esa approved the columbus laboratory by 1987.