Mir Space Station Tour

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Let's not forget about Skylab (US Space Station)

[helicoptered]

That mir space station has the ultimate retro awesomeness feel watching that ;-)

[YDDES]

According to some sources, MIR was meant as a prototype for a Mars ship. USSR had lost the race to Moon, now they wanted to beat USA to Mars. Then USSR collapsed...

[Hatinonthehaters]

If i was up there i would be looking through the window, staring at the unknown for hours on end...

[marcopiu82]

mir is death trap. perfect russian style

[Hatinonthehaters]

@marcopiu82 oh? you have been up there? idiot lol.

[marcopiu82]

@Hatinonthehaters Everybody knows that the mir was a wreck, the computers worked when they wanted ... I do not know LOL idiot?

[Hatinonthehaters]

@marcopiu82 well if it was a wreck and it was dangerous, americans wouldnt go up there... it was the first of its kind.... stop hating you dipshit.

[marcopiu82]

@Hatinonthehaters I'm not hating I'm just saying that it had become a death trap old and obsolete

[Hatinonthehaters]

@marcopiu82 Mir was retired in like 96 btw...

[mrvishal1000]

@marcopiu82 really how does mir's core module variants runs the ISS if they were obsolete......fking illiterate idiot.

[discostoria82]

@marcopiu82 really death trap /quote.

[mashamorgan]

Could you imagine spending 437 days in here as Polyakov did. I would be ready for the loony bin after 4 mins in here

[AroundSun]

@mashamorgan It's like prison. A trip to mars is equivalent to a 2 year jail sentance

[thegundamguy]

im gonna guess the closed hatch at 00:58 leads to spektr

[mcdonaldsupperdecker]

That's no moon

[9ggraham]

The ISS is better than MIR

[DrHooty911]

@9ggraham well DUH, MIR was built ages ago by only one Nation. It was still a base example for the ISS

[Suyamu]

@9ggraham

Russia build most of the essential modules for the ISS as well.

[plavins1]

but the exaust shaft is just two meters wide

[Goldiney]

I couldn't imagine having a panic attack in that thing

[AsymptoteInverse]

It's amazing to think of living in a pressurized tube with maybe half a meter of metal between you and a painful death...I'd still jump at the chance if I ever got it. Although I must admit, Mir was really !@#$ing creepy-looking on the inside...

[Fulmarmusic]

well, i certainly agree with letting gays in space.. it would be insane to think otherwise.. altho they wouldn't be my 1st choice to go in to space with personally...

might be yours?.. not mine though

not my cuppa tea

I say let these gay spacemen have fun, who cares

[davidlucasfer]

muy bien

[cud0s]

what a waste of recourses deorbiting mir was. Why didn't they connect mir to iss?

[AlexTubed]

@cud0s The money required to renovate Mir was used on the ISS itself. Mir ultimately became very outdated much like most technology of its time.

[Tangerinemustang]

@cud0s and make it a Super space station

[TheLegoConstructor]

i <3 mir

[EZXUser]

Man, this is trully vintage. Early space settlements. MIR was the first step in making outer space our home too, thanks Russia! Thanks America for joining Russia and thanks to all other countries who joined ISS too. You rock!

[TheBobinatorXL]

@lilmisssunsett they cal it wikipedia

[TheBobinatorXL]

they say they are inspired by star wars

[MynameisElliott]

Id imagine that after six months with half a dozen other guys in space... "orientation" would be hard to keep a track of!

[malikbakt]

Mir was more symmetric than ISS is now

[malikbakt]

proudly russian!

[monkfighter123]

i would literally go insane if im in a confined space like that for a long time even if i do get to swim in air

[aggressivegeek]

What is the job of an austranaut? :S

[3li0n]

@aggressivegeek What is the job of queen of England?

[scwarzewaffe85]

@3li0n to economically drain the country of financial resource.

[TELORINODELHOYO]

i landed on the moon twice ..

[lilmisssunsett]

i hav a cience project about the mir but i dnt noe alot soo can sum1 please explain 2 me :) pleaaaaseee

[Vandwo]

Its kinda a theory, if a man landed on moon, why don`t we have moon stations there right now? And hows that USA land on moon, and don`t have space station so much time, until the russians agreed to cooperate and help them with there knowages from mir to build one multi-country station in space? I just look the facts, nothing els matter for me. Think about that what i sayed.

[qed100]

@Vandwo Why no bases on the Moon? Consider how expensive the ISS is. Now multiply that cost several times. The energy to lift a payload to the Moon is greater than to low Earth orbit. Consider also the greater risk to life because of the remoteness. It takes days to get back to Earth from the Moon in the event of an emergency. Also, the United States had its own space station way back in the early 1970s, called Skylab.

[Ifailatsports]

why is there so much debate on which country is better? get over it

[strasheep]

@Ifailatsports you're dead right. i'm neither Russian or American and i appreciate what both countries have achieved. check out the ISS.. 16 countries, multiple philosophies and corresponding influences. a model of cooperation.

[qoohkLive7]

US copys everything

and gets WHAT

THEY R NOTHING NOW!!

no brand in technology r famous by US but APPLE,

fashion, cars, food, etc

[HazeGreyAndUnderway]

holy shit was a mess

[Zukhov1945]

Mir: built by only one country from the 80s to 200s

Iss: built by all world economic powers

The USSR was the only one with guts to build a space station alone ;).

[julqw2]

I agree, U.S. tried building a similar station (Freedom), but it was never finished...

[guslb12]

@Zukhov1945 ussr and now china...both communist powers which is kind of weird

[barthoedemaker]

Russian where first in everything, I hate USA propaganda, but i give them props for building better stuff.

[EpiDemic117]

@barthoedemaker Not really, When you think about it. Both nations copied from each other. Especially with the space shuttle.

[ParaglidingManiac]

@EpiDemic117,

I guess that's why in the end - it became a International project :)

[Ifailatsports]

the only thing they were not first in was landing on the moon....a complete waste of time and money since nasa does not get enough funding to actually continue landing humans on other things besides earth...

[osara4love1]

No body ever landed on the moon brother, please and please and please, dont be brainwahsed by all those stunts America has performed. believe me, no living body can make it past the radiation between the earth and the moon arthmosphere. no man can land on the moon.

[Ifailatsports]

ha fucking christian i bet you don't believe in other life either fuck you you brainwashed son of a bitch

[george7378]

@osara4love1 You think you know about Moon landings when you say the Moon has an atmosphere? Please, get a grip and learn about this radiation before you talk about it. Tell me why it is impossible, or is it just something someone else told you and you let it brainwash you? Stop being a hypocrite and stop pretending you know more than people who actually have the knowledge to talk about things like this.

[qed100]

@osara4love1 You know why the Van Allen radiation belts are called belts? It's because they're not SPHERES. It's possible to route a spacecraft around the most intense regions of radiation, which is exactly what the Apollo spacecraft did. There's a famous pic from Apollo 17 as it was outbound, with the entire continent of Antarctica plainly in view. The ship was well-south of the belts' equatorial region.

[zaagmans1]

What a mess compared by the ISS!

[scabdool]

in 100 years there will be like giant space stations like mini towns an stuff ITS GONNA BE CRAZY!

[legion3721]

Do they have a cigarette smoking module? If not, the hell with going to space.

[azmanntoz]

you just roll the window down.

[J0rdan691]

open the door

[MultiShooter123]

no u just go smoke outside

[Membrane556]

Yah I been following it seems half the members on the commission are idiots.

Yes Ares is crap and should be axed but it doesn't mean alternatives like Direct also are crap.

Also 25T LVs are not large enough for exploration unless you can launch one every week and are prepared to do low level assembly such as welding in a space garage.

This means you need an RLV or an HLV one or the other.

A dumb cheap rocket in the 20T ish range also would work but is not on the table as an option.

[Membrane556]

ISS is a huge improvement over Mir but without Mir there may not have been an ISS at least it would have taken longer to become an operational station.

The Russian side of ISS was originally Mir 2 but became integrated with a size reduced space station freedom which became ISS.

[ukrainesuperpower87]

ISS station is based mostly on Mir2 design and technology

[hrmarinkovic]

yes, it is, but the ISS is actually made by few space organisations so its many parts made with different technology

[julqw2]

well, I would hope that technology is not just stagnating and it is better, but MIR has provided the space science with unique experiences and innumerous data (23000 experiments).

[lokifeatronin]

Why is everyone mad at me? You guys are idiots, I was just expressing my opionion, since when is that wrong you ignorant fools?

Its a great video, thank you for uploading...

but MIR looks crappy,go hate !

[radarnoz19]

Considering the age Mir was when it came down. It held up pretty well.

[lokifeatronin]

mir looks so crappy compared to the iss

lol

[BGSlopy]

Well smart ass read when was the mir launched and when was the iss ...

[hasseNicknames]

Compared to the MIR-Space-Station ISS looks like a luxury hotel. Some day they will launch a Burger King module or add on the first zero gravity cinema. The MIR was the ultimate adventure. The first and the last "hardcore space station"!

[Membrane556]

Future space stations such as Bigelow's skywalker station probably will probably make ISS look as archaic as Mir.

Then on the NASA side their future stations will probably be based off 75T skylab sized modules since an HLV will be available from the lunar program.

[VitamnP]

We'd better hope there's an HLV bro, have you been following the augustine commission

[SpaceNazi08]

So sad Mir gone kicks ISS ass

[JephN]

only if you don't count the part where there's a hull breach, or the fire and smoke issues, or the lack of volume.

[mounsteres]

Hull Breach by Space Debris due to the Soviet's Sattilites that they don't give a shit about when their done with them and let the crash into other ones, and the smoke from it,

[estonski]

soo sad abut mir rip:(

[pgtlaser]

It made me cry when they finally brought Mir down. The ISS is cool, but it just doesn't feel as special as Mir.

[maglight117]

if only nasa bought the mir

[analogfantasy]

NASA wanted to buy it, then holywood wanted to buy it, but Russian space agency refused all offers

[xXcynicalMINDXx]

i also wanted to buy it

[ukrainesuperpower87]

Remember american movie Armageddon, episode with "MIR" station and one drunked cosmounavt with ushanka? It was funny.

[sauron7222]

lol yah

[joachim2464]

the station in armageddon di not look like mir:)

[laplase1]

Dave's Dad was my doctor in Indy, they look a lot alike.

[Tommyr]

I miss Mir.....

[vietnamdude]

me too...

[chernovik80]

and me too...

[tyab87]

me too... :'(

[britishareawesome69]

me too....

[drnk4130]

me too :((

[scwarzewaffe85]

@Tommyr what do you miss about mir?,i miss it too for what its worth.

[HeadSHOT604]

@Tommyr same a very big loss for humanity

[mindtrix00]

Very interesting.

[alexdol]

stupid coments make all the video look stupid.

Comment on the material shown not your fuckin ideas about moon landings and shit - there is another video for that .

[macro820]

Like bugs in a jar

[grayhog86]

Human hamsters in space.

I would NOT have wanted to spend much time in that trash hole of a station!

[InkaPeru]

you would need to be a cosmonaut first , i don't think you have the brains to become one! LOL

[grayhog86]

1. There were astronauts on Mir, too, not just cosmonauts.

2. I had an application for the Army Astronaut program completed when I sufferred a neck injury disqualifying me. That should tell you something about my qualifications - I actually thought I had a shot.

Where's your degree in Aerospace Engineering?

[InkaPeru]

good for you, but anyone can become an astronaut in the US, a cosmonaut is quite another kettle of fish, those guys are really smart they actually built a space station unlike the US who needs European help to put a space station together.

[grayhog86]

...yeah...

...you're right.

Most U.S. Astronauts were actually homeless crack addicts before being selected.

Russia's shuttle rip-off flew (unmanned) once.

U.S. Shuttle has flown well over 100 times.

We have European partners on the ISS not for a lack of intelligence but money. It is very expensive.

Russia should be very proud of their space achievements but face it, they lost the race to the moon and their shuttle program failed.

International cooperation is the way it is.

[InkaPeru]

Russia realized a long time ago that the US shuttle design was riddled with problems, the buran project determined that the US shuttle design would create many problems on reentry and lift off, thus when the russians tested the design it was fully automated as not to risk the lives of their own cosmonauts. 1986 and 2003 proved the russians right.

[grayhog86]

your right...

...that's why they spent millions upon millions.

...to prove our design flawed.

...I'm honored to be in the presence of such genius...such complete and perfect knowledge of all things space related.

...let me guess - you also don't think we landed on the moon, do you?

Idiot!

[InkaPeru]

look at it from their point of view, they might spend a few million dollars copying a prototype which was said to be a very reliable means of transport, so they tested it hoping to build a number of very cheap and reliable shuttles, however the tests proved the shuttle to be highly unreliable and prone to explode and so they abandoned the whole thing before any decision was taken.

well the moon landing looks fishy.

[grayhog86]

I KNEW IT!

A Moon hoaxer wanker!

This conversation is OVER!

What a complete and perfect idiot you are!

[InkaPeru]

maybe you should calm down a bit, am i wrong or was it your temper that got your neck broken? 'cos you seem to lose your temper quite easily.

[grayhog86]

That's the problem with text debate...

...you can't hear me laughing at you!

(temper)

No, knuckle head, I find you and your lack of real knowledge entertaining as hell. Like watching SpongeBob.

Too bad stupidity isn't painful!

[InkaPeru]

tsk tsk tsk, quit being a loser and do something with your life dude!

[ChernomirdinReturn]

grayhog86

You abusive from for defect fact?

[grayhog86]

What? "You abusive from for defect fact?"

What the hell is that?

LOL! Have you been drinking?

[AsHrAfOilMaN]

cool...