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Explore the International Space Station
A VRML presentation from CNN

NASA Human Spaceflight
Make sense of who contributes what to the International Space Station

Where Is the Mir Space Station?
Find out with this online tracking device from the Russian Space Agency.

Mir Space Station
Mir's mishaps, projects and history

 




newsfile subjects

The Race to the Moon
The story of Sputnik and the space race

Space Stations
Skylab, Mir and the ISS

Shuttles
From Discovery to Challenger

Adventures on Mars
The next stop in our solar system

Solar System and Beyond
Profiling the probes that have reached interstellar space






space stations
Who Needs This?
The International Space Station is finally set to fly. Years late and billions over budget, the giant spaceliner may be an orbiting white elephant.
TIME Magazine, November 23, 1998

Map of the Space Station
Map showing the proposed components of the station

Special Online Report: Building the Space Empire
Will the International Space Station be constructed on time?

Moscow, We Have a Problem
Michael Foale was a newcomer aboard the Space Station Mir last June when he got the order to prepare to abandon ship. In a TIME exclusive, the American astronaut describes one of the most dangerous crises in the history of space travel.
TIME Magazine, November 3, 1997

New Life for a Ghost Ship
Russia's Mir space station gets a much needed jolt of juice
TIME Magazine, September 1, 1997

Sending for the Repairmen
A new team of cosmonauts tackles Mir's recurring problems
TIME Magazine, August 8, 1997

Adrift in Space
An embarrassing power failure puts the craft, its inhabitants and the U.S.-Soviet space-cooperation program in jeopardy.
TIME Magazine, July 28, 1997

Star City
Training For Mir
LIFE Magazine, June, 1997

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