Mir space station
1986–2001 · Event
Fifteen years of continuous Soviet then Russian presence in orbit — fires, collisions, record-breaking stays, and post-Cold-War crews of every flag — before a controlled Pacific grave.
On these timelines: Spaceflight, Master, Russia & the USSR, Science & Technology
More from Spaceflight
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (1926)
- First Space Shuttle flight (1981)
- V-2: the first rocket to reach space (1942)
- Apollo 17: the last Moon landing (1972)
- Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation (1903)
- First spacewalk (1965)
- Shenzhou 5: China's first astronaut (2003)
Around 1986
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Gulf War (1990)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Night Fever (Bee Gees) (1978)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Another Brick in the Wall (Part II) (Pink Floyd) (1979)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)