» This article refers to the Soviet space station. For other uses of the term "Mir," see Mir (disambiguation). Mir (; lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station. It was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first of the third generation type of space station, constructed from 1986 to 1996 with a modular design. The station was in operation for fifteen years until March 23, 2001, when it was deliberately de-orbited, breaking… (More on Mir)