Title: MIR Space Station Tour Published on Nov 24, 2007 YouTube Code: https://youtu.be/vBONpY3TxN8 Duration: 1:53
NASA astronaut David Wolf gives a lecture on the Russian Space Station Mir. In 1997 and 1998, Wolf served a long-duration assignment aboard Mir, launching on STS-86 and returning on STS-89.
Title: Space Station Collision - Mir Crash with Progress Supply Vessel Published on Sep 27, 2017 YouTube Code: https://youtu.be/feplKyucGkU Duration: 09:14
Of all the 100’s of thousands of pieces of space junk and nearly 1500 satellites in orbit around the earth, it may come as a surprise that so far there has been only one major collision involving a manned craft and it affected both Russians and Americans.
This is the almost forgotten story of the only major collision to involve a manned space vehicle, in this case, the Russian space station Mir and a Progress resupply cargo vessel in 1997.
