A Brief History of Mir

Mir genuinely was the most kerbal space station ever XD

Thanks!

what a beautiful message the cdr of the space shuttle had when they approached mir for the first time. unfortunately humanity is incapable of standing united, bringing everyone equally forward.

is the footage at 38:15 a real one or a recreation?

32:45 I want this world to come back. I want the world where everyone agrees that any territorial expansion is bad and we should all live in free cooperative world. 90's mindset was the peak for humanity

All I did was watch this video and BOOM my name is also Aleksandr! 🤣

I was a kid when Mir deorbited, i rebember watching the news and getting sad about it even if i barely knew anything about space stations, but it put me back then in a rabit hole searching anything i could about the station that gave me a great interest about space

Did the mold survive re-entry?

13:35 aw, no anecdote about the guitar being transferred to Mir?

8:27 The soviets never got the memo that the space race was mostly a PR thing. You can actually see Apollo era “Media Packets” that were handed out to journalists explaining literally everything about the mission. They had media rooms like they were running the Olympics for every single launch. The fact that the soviets just kept everything secret tells you how far behind they were, and were not even talking about the actual science here.

Just found this channel and am binge watching everything. Amazing!

imagine being a kid in Argentina waking up and seeing bits of real space station that fell in your garden, that’d be so cool

Quick correction: The crew did not stay in the soyuz orbital module for ascent they stayed in the descent module for ascent(weird naming tho)

Do you do all the ksp simulations yourself?

I was born on January 15, 2001. MIR Still lives on in my life. :)

MOLD IN SPACE!

Space Fakery is not real...

10:30 Correction: they sit in the descent module at launch.

You mentioned ascent and the crew being in the orbital module — depending on what exactly you mean, this is very wrong.

If by “ascent” you mean the rocket launch: absolutely not. If that were the case, Alexey Ovchinin and Nick Hague — the crew of Soyuz MS-10 — would not have survived. The orbital module has no provisions for landing (like parachutes) in the event of an abort during launch; only the descent module can safely return the crew to Earth.

It would also be wasteful and impractical to have two sets of seats: one for launch and another for landing.

If by “ascent” you mean the phase after reaching orbit, on the way to the space station, then yes — the orbital module is used to provide the crew with extra space and “legroom” during their time in orbit.

Is that Everyday Astronaut music?

10:25 fun fact, the TKS spacecraft was also actually intended to hold crew. In fact, the version you showed earlier at 7:05 is the crewed version (the long gangly thing sticking off the front is a launch escape system), but it was never used due to the cancellation of the lunar program. The cargo versions had the conic descent module and launch escape system removed.

Go Canada! Love my respectful neighbors to the north! Help the US fix its government by boycotting!!

The lapa is pronounced wah-pah which means paw/arm/hand

The word salut was not used at the time to mean fireworks… that came later… at the time the German word was used feuerwerk. Salut meant salute or funfair… during soviet military parades they would salute the leader… and that’s when flyovers and fireworks would go off. So the word salut began including fireworks as an additional meaning. Not at the time of station naming tho…later

Life… finds a way.

Very entertaining and educational video!!!👍 Absolutely love your sense of humor 😂😂😂

I wonder if any of the fungus survived re-entry 💀

Could you imagine the all these folks getting back together for a party, and all the Aleksandrs having to mingle, and being introduced to other people? "Hello, Aleksandr, nice to meet you." "Have you met Aleksandr dear?" "Why yes, you just introduc....wait, but, that over there is Aleksandr.." "Yes dear, that is, and so is this, and him, and him, and that guy over there...."

I am really enjoying your content my friend, thank you for making it. Just like everybody else I am fascinated by the mold, I never knew that before. I am a big fan of fungi, I am not knowledgeable enough to really make this claim but I think practically all life on Earth is dependent on our slimy friends. The fact they manage to worm their way into freaking space, and not only that but thrive there, makes me even more in awe of what fungi can do.

after Mir the mold was broken.

19:39 why there is a KFC logo on the bird incubator 😂

Wonder if ALL the mould was destroyed when Mir came down or if any survived....?

15:03 The wording is confusingly ambiguous and could be understood that the crew of Soyuz-TM2 arrived there aboard the Proton rocket. That never happened, of course.

I had no idea that the shuttle ever docked with Mir. That blows me away I didn't know that.

Excellent work, thank you.

Самый длительный полет (437 суток 17 часов 58 минут 17 секунд) в истории космонавтики осуществил российский космонавт Валерий Поляков в январе 1994 года - марте 1995 года, работая на российской станции "Мир".

Is ISS infected with dust mites or fungus too? Do they clean it more thoroughly or have any newer techniques for preventing or mitigating that kind of problem?

i keep coming back to watch the mold part

I know it's a la mode to dismiss and mock anything Russian these days, and don't get me wrong, I like your videos - but please, could you tone down the superiority complex commentary? It's to a great extent thanks to the efforts of the Soviet Union and later Russia that we are where we are today in space exploration. Yes, the Russians may have used a pencil instead of a 10 million dollar specially-engineered pen, but that does not make their contribution less valuable than the americans.. Were I to copy your style of commentary, I'd insert a comment about the Canadian space station programme here, but I wont.

It's absolutely nuts how crazy the Mir space station's situations got. "Mir 2, Fungal Boogaloo" got me cackling. :P

26:07 Praise be to Grandfather Nurgle!

I fell asleep watching this video and woke up to the chilling sounds of that meme at the end. I was utterly terrified.

An outstanding documentary, rich in detail and information. Thank you. 🍀

Still watching, great information.

Bit of a space nerd.

Would love a "A brief history of space stations". Starting from the early concepts like Von Braun Ring, O'Neill cylinder, German Außenstation and the British Interplanetary Society's steam powered space station. Then Salyut, Skylab, Mir. Then turn of the century concepts like Space station Freedom, Columbus Space Station and Mir 2. Then ISS, Tiangong, CSS. And finally commercial spacestation like Bigelow and all the new Commercial LEO destinations

20:40 i didnt checked yet how robotic arm was called for real, but Lapa or Лапа is a word in Russian, Lapa is a Paw or animal leg with paw itself, my guess thats how crew of Mir maybe called it while working or in interviews to not call it with abbreviation but give it some personality, or just if they forgot abbreviation )

(also Lapa could be as joke word for hand or robotic arm or a claw, or even fir or spruce tree branch because its looks like big tree paw)

Thanks for the noise warning at the end.