There are plenty of videos that start explaining the chaotic mess that was Mir in its later years. I wanted to change that narrative a little since Mir was a...
Guy has some anticommunist brainworms but it’s a very detailed rundown of Mir.
The USSR really hit it out of the park with the Salyut design. Big enough to be practical for human habitation, small enough to launch on relatively low cost rockets, and modular enough to be used for a wide variety of purposes. Even the current Chinese space station’s modules are basically Salyut variants.
The USSR really hit it out of the park with the Salyut design. Big enough to be practical for human habitation, small enough to launch on relatively low cost rockets, and modular enough to be used for a wide variety of purposes. Even the current Chinese space station’s modules are basically Salyut variants.