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An uncrewed Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
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Russian uncrewed cargo spacecraft of 1997
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Habitable artificial satellite
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Mir
Soviet/Russian space station (1986–2001)
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)