Witness History. Russia's space control struggled on December 26, 2000, to restore contact with the Mir space station, seeking to prevent a possible crash landing by the aging orbiter. The Russian space station Mir was deorbited purposefully back in 2001; operators ditched the 135-ton station into the South Pacific. A robotic cargo ship crashed into the Russian Mir space station yesterday during a docking test. Just a few years earlier, in 1979, NASA's Skylab station fell out of orbit. Sixteen years ago, a fire on the Russian space station Mir erupted after a cosmonaut routinely ignited a perchlorate canister that produced oxygen to supplement the space station… Mir Space Station Crash. The Russian space station Mir ended its mission on 23 March 2001, when it was brought out of its orbit, entered the atmosphere and was destroyed. This explanation is excerpted from Shuttle-Mir: The U.S. and Russia Share History's Highest Stage. Mir’s controlled fiery plunge into the ocean was a bittersweet moment for space aficionados, Russian and American alike. In ways, the procedure was similar to … Space Crash. A large artificial satellite used as a long-term base for manned operations in space; a manned artificial satellite in a fixed orbit designed for scientific research; A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live and work in outer space for a period of time. It was the worst collision in the history of space flight. In June 1997 a resupply vessel crashed into the Mir space station. The station's demise didn't go completely unconsidered as the facility was being designed. End of “Mir” Space Station by gary_satanovsky. Il y a 20 ans, la station Mir se désintégrait dans l'atmosphère terrestre Par Rédacteur le 23.03.2016 à 17h58 , mis à jour le 23.03.2021 à 10h58 Lecture 4 min. space station. Assembled module by module starting in 1986, it served as the base for all space-based research in Russia. On June 25, 1997, Vasily Tsibliev took remote control of the Progress resupply vehicle and fired its rockets to propel the craft toward the Mir Space Station. International Space Station to crash into Pacific after 2020. Mir (du russe : Мир signifiant « Paix » et « Monde ») était une station spatiale russe placée en orbite terrestre basse par l'Union soviétique.Mise en orbite le 19 février 1986 et détruite volontairement le 23 mars 2001, elle fut assemblée en orbite entre 1986 et 1996.