
Tells how the Soviet Union's experience with a succession of Salyut space stations led to the development of Mir, which was assembled in space, piece by piece, between 1982 and 1996 and became an international research laboratory whose technology went on to form the 'core modules' of the International Space Station.
| joseph leconte emily c emily chubbuck judson john townsend trowbridge james a mckenna edwin h colbert | ronald cohen hilary a raab vijaya k kaushik elliott r barkan herman parish |