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"Mir was a Russian space station that was humanity's first permanently inhabited space station."
-- umm, are you sure it was really the first one? Or is "permanently" the keyword here? To my knowledge, it wasn't entirely "permanent" in that matter, there were certain uninhabited gaps between expeditions every now and then, especially near the end of the station existance...
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[edit] Length
The article is tool long, adn attractsw warnings when it is edited. it seems to have some duplication, and also tables and lists which could be moved or found elsewhere.
Our best move is probably to give the tables their own pages. I'll see if I can give it a shot. Deltabeignet 22:20, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Mir Expeditions and Spacewalks
Deltabeignet, you did a really good job listing all of the Mir visiting crews, Expeditions and spacewalks. Thanks for all your hard work. This must have taken a long time to gather and list all of that information. It's people like you that make Wikipedia great. Thanks!
- I wish I could take credit; I just moved the tables to their own articles after some comments on the page's size. Thanks for the appreciation, though; it's people like you that keep us all going. Deltabeignet 9 July 2005 03:15 (UTC)
[edit] Wrong Photo
The picture captioned "The Mir space station" is actually a picture of some guy with a moustache. Huh? 23 July 2005
- reverted this. --Bricktop 10:02, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] as an Russian,
- In Russian, Mir (Мир) means "peace," and connotes "community."
As a Russian, I want to say Мир never meant anything like "community". Мир means world, Мир means peace, that's all this word mean. Ilyak 21:03, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- As a Russian too I confirm this. Never knew of such a meaning like "community". --Bricktop 21:18, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
- Well, there's a connotation of community like in "mirskoy sud", "vsem mirom". But it is an anachronism and ertainly that's not the meaning put into the name of the station.
- Oh yes, you're correct. But mentioning this obscure meaning and not "world" is something strange. I think it should be fixed. Ilyak 10:33, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
- Well, there's a connotation of community like in "mirskoy sud", "vsem mirom". But it is an anachronism and ertainly that's not the meaning put into the name of the station.
cool...you can edit an encyclopedia!! :]
[edit] space staion launching
please... answer this!! where are launching pads in the USA??
This is not really relivant, but there are a lot, all over the country. The main ones are at Vandenberg AFB and Cape Canaveral. Mir was a Soviet space station, and therefore launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in the Soviet Union (Now Kazaksthan). In future, please post in a more appropriate place. I suggest searching for "US Space Program". --GW_Simulations 21:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Wrong photo of Kvant-1 module
The photo displayed of Kvant-1 module is wrong. Kvant-1 was smaller than FGB or DOS modules. I suppose you have displayed the Kant-1 with the FGB tug. Compare the diagram you show with these other in http://www.astronautix.com/craft/kvant.htm : it's obviously shorter. 193.144.147.23 21:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC) (I'm not registered in English, but I do in Spanish as Lon Abirisain)
[edit] WP:APT
I reverted back changes made by User:Amire80 because I didn't find any peacock terms there. Many space missions which exceeded their initial goals are described as "highly successful". For example Mars Pathfinderis described as "completely successful", Viking program - "highly successful", and many others, should we separate them from their success? ComradeWolf 16:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- "Highly successful" is quite close to "well-known", "one of the best...", "one of the most important..." and they are all listed as peacock tersm.
- Just as WP:APT says, the article describes very well why this station was successful, so this expression is not needed. --Amir E. Aharoni 06:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Space Mold ?
wasn't there some issue of a space mold or fungus eating the Mir?
"A microbiologist, Natalia Novikova, eventually identified the growth as an aggressive space fungus. And since then, she's had her hands full examining the various forms of fungi found growing aboard the ship. The aging Mir, it turns out, is nearly overrun with the stuff. Visitors have found numerous fungal patches with hues between green and black, feeding behind control panels, slowly digesting the ship's air conditioner, communications unit, and myriad other surfaces. Pull out an insulation panel on Mir, and you'll probably find fungus." from slashdot (October 4, 2000) and the Boston Globe...
Dialectric 00:02, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
