Mir Space Station

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Mir Space Station

• Presented By David Garnetti

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Brief History of Mir

• The first space shuttle docked with Mir in 1986
• Completed construction of space station in 1996
• Continuously occupied until August 1999
• Fell out of orbit in March 2001

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The Purpose

• Mir translates into peace world village
• Literally Mir refers to the Russian peasant own
  land granted by the Edict of Emancipation of 1861
• To perform zero gravity experiments
• To make observations of earth, space, and
  biological effects of prolonged space flight
• Peaceful world collaboration

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Mirs Modules

• Core Living quarters and station control
• Kvant I Observed physics of space
• Kvant II Crew showers, earth and biological
  experiments
• Kristall Semiconductor and biological
  experiments
• Spektr Living and work area for American
  Astronauts
• Priroda Earth remote sensing
• Docking Module Safe stable port for space
  shuttles

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Mirs Layout

• The station resembled four school buses connected
  to each other at 90 degree angles with a two more
  sections perpendicular to the other four

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Mir Core Module

• Launched Feb. 1986
• 13.1 meters long 20.4 tons, 90 cubic meters
  habitable volume
• Contained primary living and working area, life
  support and power, as well as the main computer,
  communications and control equipment
• one docking port for space craft and four radial
  berthing ports, set at 90 degree

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Kvant I

• Launched 1987 4 by 13 meters, 11.5 tons, 40
  meters pressurized volume
• Attached to the Core Module
• Provided research in the physics of galaxies,
  quasars, and neutron stars
• measured electromagnetic spectra and x-ray
  emissions.
• Also supported biotechnology experiments

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Kvant II

• Launched 1989 4.3 by 13.7 meters 19.6 tons
  61.3 cubic meters and 27.4 meter solar array
• Enhanced drinking water and oxygen provisions,
  motion control systems, power distribution, and
  contained washing facilities
• Provided biological research and earth
  observations

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Kristall Module

• Launched 1990 4.3 by 11.9 meters 19.5 tons
  60.8 cubic meters 36 meter solar array
• Developed biological and materials production
  technologies in the space environment.
• semi-conductors, cellular substances and
  medicines.
• Supported astrophysical and technical experiments

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Spektr Module

• Launched 1995 4.4 by 12 meters 19.5 tons 62
  cubic meters 4 solar arrays
• American living quarters of Mir
• Contained 1600 lbs of U.S. equipment
• Mainly used for earth observation of natural
  resources and the atmosphere.
• Also supported biotechnology, life sciences,
  materials science and space technologies research

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Priroda Module

• Last Module Launched 1996 4.3 by 13 meters 19
  tons 66 cubic meters
• Mainly used for earth remote sensing
• weather ocean-atmosphere systems land, mineral
  and crop conditions mankind's impacts and
  opportunities in the environment.
• Also collected info from buoys in nuclear power,
  seismically dangerous, and other zones,
• to create an integrated monitoring and warning
  system

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Docking Module

• Allowed for a space shuttle to dock safely with
  the station
• Attached to the end of the Kristall section

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Soyuz

• Length 7 meters 7100 kg 10 cubic meters
• Manned spacecraft that can ferry up to three
  crewmembers to and from Mir.
• Can be used as an escape pod for the crew

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Progress Supply Vehicle

• 8 by 2.7 meters 6.6 cubic meters can carry up
  2500 kg of supplies
• Unmanned, automated version of the Soyuz
• Designed to supply the space station

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Finished Space Station

• Was the largest spacecraft with total weight of
  250 tons
• The size of six school buses
• Avg. Speed 17,885 mph
• Orbited approx 250 mi. above the earth
• Housed over 100 cosmonauts, astronauts, and
  international crew members
• Over 75 space walks 325 hours

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Achievements of the Mir

• 16,500 experiments
• 600 new technologies
• Stayed in orbit for 15 years
• 3 times its planned lifetime
• 16 orbits everyday
• Approx 87,600 total orbits

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Achievements of the Mir

• First crop of wheat to be grown from seed to seed
  in outer space
• Provided data on the biological effects of long
  term space flight
• Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent 438 consecutive
  days in space
• MEEP Mir Environmental Effects Payload

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Flaws and Accidents

• Never was able to maintain a adequate system for
  the stowage of refuse
• Towards the end of operations Mir would
  experience power outages and environmental
  fluctuations regularly
• June 1997 a Progress shuttle collided with the
  Spektr module
• Spektr became decompressurized and had to be
  sealed

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The Deorbit of Mir

• With a failing Russian economy and construction
  of the International Space Station, Russia
  decided to deorbit Mir
• Mir fell into the South Pacific near New Zealand
  on March 23, 2001

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After Mir

• Currently the International Space Station is
  manned and orbiting the earth

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Sources

• http//spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/sp
  acecraft/s-mir.htm
• http//spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/
• http//www.russianspaceweb.com/mir.html

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