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01/24/25: Starting Notes About the Mir
Space Station.
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24 January 2025
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I set up some directories and dummy files
to start to capturing some notes as I read
about the Mir Space Station.
But I think I going to start this journey
with the Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 space
stations.
These were the last of the non-expandable
space stations. Mir and the ISS can
receive additional compartments over time.
However, the final generation Salyuts were
still capable. With one Soyuz docked a
Salyut could receive a guest crew and their
materials. OR, the 'permanent crew' could
receive an automated Progress freighter.
It could be loaded with food, water and
experiments, OR liquids needed for the
engines.
At first glance, what I am most
interested in, perhaps becuase news on
the Soviet Space program was more
difficult to come by in my pre-Internet,
rural Texas childhood is the Interkosmos
program. Under Interkosmos, "guest
cosmonauts" from Soviet Bloc and
European countries flew to the Salyuts.
This is analagous to the NASA-ESA
Spacelab program.
