STS 86 Launch & Approaching Mir

Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis starting it's journey towards the russian Space Station Mir.

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• sts86
• nasa
• launch
• ksc
• atlantis
• mir
• russian

[Ura293]

right, Russians had fire, Russians had safety problems etc. - but why then Russians safely ended the Mir mission after 15 years of success while americans crushed two their spaceshuttle aircrufts killing both crews? - what a stupid arrogance in comments we hear to this video - pathetic and disgusting american boasting which always is based not on their achievements, but on attempts to feel superior by putting down others, even if others are in fact doing things better then they do...

[frozencanadian]

@Ura293 No kidding, Russia has cleanest safety record of any space going nation thus far considering the number of missions they have done.

[Eagle1Division2]

@frozencanadian

@kaizenx68

@Ura293 Sheesh. Why is it so popular to hate America? NASA was concerned about putting shuttle astronauts on-board because Mir had attitude control issues just recently, and the collision, if you look into it, really had some unsafe practice going on (turning off radar range finders, velocity and acceleration telemetry, etc.). It's not that they were Russian; it's that the collision was a major event.

Those are both completely legitimate concerns.

[kaizenx68]

@Ura293 that's true not to mention when USA launched Skylab it was broke when it first got into orbit.They had to fly a mission to fix it even then it didn't last to long.But Mir was in orbit for 15 years with those accidents towards the end of the program.Give credit where credit is due the Russians are good when it comes to working in space.

[tealmarlin]

no way could I spend 6 months on that

[kevnrob]

Yeah, Jay Leno said that MIR is the Russian name for duct tape!

[CroNu4]

faking you