It's saddening to see such little interest in such a significant chapter in Russian space history. Thank you for posting this excellent documentary. 1 grateful Scotsman.
Hi Scott, You're welcome. We just uploaded the video and it's bound to get a lot of views. I really enjoyed it myself. We have some other space videos uploaded with more to come if you're interested in more. Feel free to share it with whoever you like. Thanks again!
+scott c I feel you on that one. I love MIR. It was such an amazing machine, and while I do love the ISS for what it is as well, nothing beats the odd charm that MIR had. Being a kid in the 90's seeing Shuttle flights to it, it was almost something magic.
Мир (Mir) also means "world", along with "peace". So the selection of the name can be seen as a nice allegory: "peace over/around the world". Thank you for the video.
I was there, at the Star City in the 90's. I watched cosmonauts train in that giant aquarium, and I had practiced on the equipment that was used on MIR. Was inside the centrifuge and at the mission control center, where the position of the space station tracked on a giant map, capable of displaying day/night cycle and communication range. Alexander Serebrov was a close family friend. Saw him last around 2005, before his death few years later. I studied MIR's food preparation systems. Those bags with dehydrated food designed to hook up to the water station were called "swallow's tail" because of the shape of the plastic seal. ISS uses a different design.
Mir stands for "peace" in Russian but the same word also means "world". There is another word in Russian for "world", it's "svet". But it also happens to stand for "light". A very difficult language to master, but not because of homonyms or synonyms. I am still fluent in it after so many years of nearly never using it.
That's the tragedy with so many of these regimes. You can find almost anything the US has ever done well and properly documented, or at least partially documented, because of free press and people with cameras not fearing for their lives. Anything the USSR or China or any of these other communist states have ever done is shrouded in mystery... Footage either horribly edited or simply destroyed...
I'd say the one thing that makes the iss better is the design of the american/western modules brought up by the space shuttle. They're wider, the wiring is more organised, and they're quieter. They had the advantage of the shuttle and it's enormous cargo bay to bring them up of course. A station like mir is organic, and interesting in it's own way, but crew comfort is a huge factor in the succes of a mission, and russian design is not really known for comfort.
Bento if the west could build a space station, don't you think they would have done so long time ago? This current space station is based on Mir that was built to replace the Mir 1.
30 %of all people in space 6 weeks or more get over pressurization of the eyes the eyes inflate and flatten at the retina. Scott Kellys major space and eye problems and he is one of the affected people. He lost flight status due to corrective lenses. He also had 42% bone loss in a year. The liver quits after a year.
Mahatma Randy It was the first truly successful space station. The others were sort of disasters. The MIR was the first one to have humans living up there for true extended periods of time and not just days or a couple weeks at a time. The others were merely experiments to lead to MIR and the ISS.
Poor little Mir. You taught us so much and you died with no ceremony and barely a mention. The ISS wouldn't be half of what it is now if we hadn't learned all of the things that can go wrong up there.
What a beautiful opening shot. And meanwhile, since then... we're filling that beautiful sky with smoke ... and burning the trees that give us oxygen in order to do it. 8 billion souls now. 2033 it hits 13 ... then it's all over. No more air.
So few commentaries on this amazing documentary about a technological marvel. Flawed, yes, but pushing the envelope and furthering our knowledge nevertheless. Random cat videos get hundreds of thousands of comments, this hasn't even broken 140, I'm sad...
Question: For both the Mir and the ISS who is taking the video or pics from way up above it, which include the station AND the earth? Is it some half mile long tether and camera?
So while traveling at 17,000 mph they eject upwards after docking, and do a turn around back to earth, even though in the vacuum of space there's nothing to push against for firing. Dude you've been watching too much Star Trek. hahahaha Oh does it also make that kchkchkch sound like the Star Wars craft make in the vacuum of space? hahaha
@@rzella8022 When you're standing on a boat and throw in one direction, your boat moves in the opposite one. Not because you push against the air but the stones.
+TheRealDeal Being in orbit for 15 years will do that, that's for sure. The sun does a number on things over time. Look at Skylab 2 footage from before the docking.. in just a few weeks it was cooked due to the shield loss on launch. As strong as Mir was, the solar scars began to show... what a trooper of a ship, though.
TheRealDeal It pretty much was. The berthing ports had a certain orientation nuance to them that caused the modules to line up in odd ways. Look up the wikipedia article and read on its assembly and the movement of modules, and you will just be like "wow.. that's crazy!"
Oh wow. Mir actually had a real shower capsule adapted for microgravity. Hygiene seems to have been deemed much more important in those days.)) Either that or the design proved to be non-viable...
That was a good thing as by then MIR was a death trap, the result of more primitive technology and it staying up WAY longer than it could handle. It had a fundamental issue with storage space and wasn't designed to handle long term habitation - for example, when US astronauts pulled out some of the equipment for checks they found giant globs of water hidden behind them that were supporting colonies of moss and other unhealthy stuff. In its time MIR was a terrific accomplishment, but it overstayed its welcome.
Russians created required knowledge thrust for NASA's succeseful space reach. There is no single boast in this documentary about Russian space endeavors. American NASA documentaries boast a lot unnecessarily.
Pésima música para un documental tan interesante y serio, mis ojos ven ciencia espacial, astronautas, logros, momentos tensos y momentos gloriosos y mis oidos están oyendo a Tom y Jerry o cartoons de Disney, deberían volver a subir este documental con la musica adecuada. Terrible music for such an interesting and serious documentary, my eyes see space science, astronauts, achievements, tense moments and glorious moments and my ears are listening to Tom and Jerry or Disney cartoons, they should upload this documentary again with the appropriate music.
Daniel Alcantarilla “management” aka their government treating their cosmonauts and engineers like crap instead of showing them the utmost respect they deserve
The ISS is also a mess of wires and stuff wherever they can fit it though, if you watch any of the non official tours. And the Russian section does still look vary similar size and organization wise.
The Family Photo It’s just because it was the precursor to the ISS. Obviously they learned how to keep things cleaner and what to do and not do up there during the 15 year life of the MIR. It’s just time that’s made it look so outdated and shoddy in comparison to the ISS that’s still in operation. I can’t imagine how cramped and dirty the Salyut got. Would’ve been the pits being jammed in there.
would've really enjoyed this documentary if it wasn't for the bs US propaganda. basically saying 'everything was shit till we (USA) got there' and saved the day
Absy 2183 Nah, everything was shitty up there even after we started sending astronauts up. It’s just because it was up there so long. Damn. It wasn’t a bad space station. It was just built a while ago and people lived in it for a long time so it got really gross and fucked up inside. And nobody knew water would collect behind panels and screw up everything until MIR, and only because of MIR.
TheGreatMoonFrog the issues it had were totally understandable after the amount of time it operated and with how many people lived and worked on it on a continual basis. I don’t think it was so much a funding issue as it was just age. Wear and tear. The same thing with the space shuttles. They weren’t bad crafts, they just had to be used way longer than they were intended to be used.
Absy 2183 exactly. USSR had a space program wich was realy scary. They launched the first satellite, wich caused the fear in the world (no its not a technical marvel XD ). After that they came up wit a shtty plan of shtty space station wich was barely working and as ms US astronaut described it was like living in a truck in a backyard with your kids. Also USSR had a horrible incident and the astronauts died while coming back from the space station. This is a true nightmare. Meanwhile the glorious USA had a different approach of shuttles, basicly aircrafts to space, not shitty one use rockets like the USSR. the 2 shuttles both had failed and exploded with all their crew, 13 astronauts. America is the best XD
The pioneers of space station
It's saddening to see such little interest in such a significant chapter in Russian space history.
Thank you for posting this excellent documentary.
1 grateful Scotsman.
Hi Scott,
You're welcome. We just uploaded the video and it's bound to get a lot of views. I really enjoyed it myself. We have some other space videos uploaded with more to come if you're interested in more. Feel free to share it with whoever you like.
Thanks again!
+scott c I feel you on that one. I love MIR. It was such an amazing machine, and while I do love the ISS for what it is as well, nothing beats the odd charm that MIR had. Being a kid in the 90's seeing Shuttle flights to it, it was almost something magic.
MIR was a piece of trash
you are piece of trash human trash
Shut your fucka!!
Мир (Mir) also means "world", along with "peace". So the selection of the name can be seen as a nice allegory: "peace over/around the world". Thank you for the video.
Easily the best documentary I've seen about Mir. Nice to see so many onboard videos, which are surprisingly hard to find on RUclips.
What a gem of a documentary to find! Thank you for uploading
Excellent! What a great era.😎❤️
I was there, at the Star City in the 90's. I watched cosmonauts train in that giant aquarium, and I had practiced on the equipment that was used on MIR. Was inside the centrifuge and at the mission control center, where the position of the space station tracked on a giant map, capable of displaying day/night cycle and communication range. Alexander Serebrov was a close family friend. Saw him last around 2005, before his death few years later. I studied MIR's food preparation systems. Those bags with dehydrated food designed to hook up to the water station were called "swallow's tail" because of the shape of the plastic seal. ISS uses a different design.
Thanks for uploading this. It seems hard to find documentaries about space that are not exclusively about Nasa on RUclips.
Thanks for uploading this fascinating documentary.
"The first US-Soviet Space walk in 1997" aight then
Mir stands for "peace" in Russian but the same word also means "world". There is another word in Russian for "world", it's "svet". But it also happens to stand for "light". A very difficult language to master, but not because of homonyms or synonyms. I am still fluent in it after so many years of nearly never using it.
Unbelievable bravery.
La recuerdo con cariño y admiración.
Sí. Todos los avanzos tecnológicos deben ser apreciados, gracias.
Excellent documentary. Congratulations
Great doc on MIR. Thanks!
Watched this a few times now thanks alot
Does anyone know where I can find an internet archive of Salyut or Mir mission film? I'd love to watch the original uncut Soviet TV footage.
M Kruz there is no uncut footage, just accidents with the kgb
That's the tragedy with so many of these regimes. You can find almost anything the US has ever done well and properly documented, or at least partially documented, because of free press and people with cameras not fearing for their lives. Anything the USSR or China or any of these other communist states have ever done is shrouded in mystery... Footage either horribly edited or simply destroyed...
Модель пылесоса на 18:24 называется "Ракета" ))))) У нас такой до сих пор есть и он работает.
Hi Indian man
I'd say the one thing that makes the iss better is the design of the american/western modules brought up by the space shuttle.
They're wider, the wiring is more organised, and they're quieter. They had the advantage of the shuttle and it's enormous cargo bay to bring them up of course.
A station like mir is organic, and interesting in it's own way, but crew comfort is a huge factor in the succes of a mission, and russian design is not really known for comfort.
Bento if the west could build a space station, don't you think they would have done so long time ago? This current space station is based on Mir that was built to replace the Mir 1.
@@alhassangangu4357 lolwut mate?
@@alhassangangu4357 what lol
I miss the old Soviet space initiative.
I laughed whenever they were doing 'Where's Waldo' in the Node. Or that's what it looked like.
Отличный фильм. Скачаю его.
USSR tech at its best.
30 %of all people in space 6 weeks or more get over pressurization of the eyes the eyes inflate and flatten at the retina. Scott Kellys major space and eye problems and he is one of the affected people. He lost flight status due to corrective lenses. He also had 42% bone loss in a year. The liver quits after a year.
Still a lot of problems to figure out before anything besides a robot sets foot on Mars.
oh boy, that music...
And the stupid ads every so many minutes.
I wouldn't call it "The first foothold," that'd be Skylab, or Almaz, or the various Salyuts.still, it was a huge accomplishment.
Mahatma Randy It was the first truly successful space station. The others were sort of disasters. The MIR was the first one to have humans living up there for true extended periods of time and not just days or a couple weeks at a time. The others were merely experiments to lead to MIR and the ISS.
The last skylab mission lasted 84 days. That more then a couple weeks.
Poor little Mir. You taught us so much and you died with no ceremony and barely a mention. The ISS wouldn't be half of what it is now if we hadn't learned all of the things that can go wrong up there.
that is true in many ways. the iss's russian core modules are the mir2 modules.
What a beautiful opening shot. And meanwhile, since then... we're filling that beautiful sky with smoke ... and burning the trees that give us oxygen in order to do it. 8 billion souls now. 2033 it hits 13 ... then it's all over. No more air.
So few commentaries on this amazing documentary about a technological marvel. Flawed, yes, but pushing the envelope and furthering our knowledge nevertheless. Random cat videos get hundreds of thousands of comments, this hasn't even broken 140, I'm sad...
Russians are great at pioneering space stuff!
it doesn't look like the most glamorous of places
The music in this makes it really hard to watch..
Russians live in space stations (Almaz, Salut, Mir, ISS) is about a half of the century.
The music is annoying, very annoying.
Thanks for the upload.
Its just the old style
Lol
Jerry is from Eastpointe michigan, i was in high school when he went to mir...
Hi guy's can I want to know about the mir history more
35:58 Тот Буран который летал, раздавило упавшей крышей ангара на Байконуре. В парке Горького другой.
Question: For both the Mir and the ISS who is taking the video or pics from way up above it, which include the station AND the earth? Is it some half mile long tether and camera?
Usually other spacecraft visiting it before they dock or just after they leave.
So while traveling at 17,000 mph they eject upwards after docking, and do a turn around back to earth, even though in the vacuum of space there's nothing to push against for firing. Dude you've been watching too much Star Trek. hahahaha Oh does it also make that kchkchkch sound like the Star Wars craft make in the vacuum of space? hahaha
@@rzella8022 thrusters, dude. Newton's third law.
@@rzella8022 When you're standing on a boat and throw in one direction, your boat moves in the opposite one. Not because you push against the air but the stones.
why the music?
I like how it looks all dirty, like its been through a war.
+TheRealDeal Being in orbit for 15 years will do that, that's for sure. The sun does a number on things over time. Look at Skylab 2 footage from before the docking.. in just a few weeks it was cooked due to the shield loss on launch. As strong as Mir was, the solar scars began to show... what a trooper of a ship, though.
Yeah, i mean, it looks like its all put together haphazardly.
TheRealDeal
It pretty much was. The berthing ports had a certain orientation nuance to them that caused the modules to line up in odd ways. Look up the wikipedia article and read on its assembly and the movement of modules, and you will just be like "wow.. that's crazy!"
***** thanx man, will check it out.
TheRealDeal
NP buddy :D
Is man suited to life in space? Not originally but if its one thing we humans are good at it's adapting to new environments.
was it necessary to discredit mir through and through?
Thanks, I love MIR! Also, where did you get the footage from?
Oh wow. Mir actually had a real shower capsule adapted for microgravity. Hygiene seems to have been deemed much more important in those days.)) Either that or the design proved to be non-viable...
Telum Atramenti It was the design.
If this was Dead Space, I'd go nowhere near that thing
Respect to soyuz 11
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17:38 look at those dead pixels!!! That's the Sun boy
24:40 song?
12:41 I found Waldo everyone. 12:47 Dear God there's a bunch of them now! I think they've taken over the ship!
1999 they left the station for good. "7 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost station."
It deorbited around 2001
cuando se ducha no hay peligro de elctrocusion??
no pues la agua espacial no conduce electricidad
@Spart113 unfortunately, no. It was de orbited in 2001.
That was a good thing as by then MIR was a death trap, the result of more primitive technology and it staying up WAY longer than it could handle. It had a fundamental issue with storage space and wasn't designed to handle long term habitation - for example, when US astronauts pulled out some of the equipment for checks they found giant globs of water hidden behind them that were supporting colonies of moss and other unhealthy stuff. In its time MIR was a terrific accomplishment, but it overstayed its welcome.
Russians created required knowledge thrust for NASA's succeseful space reach. There is no single boast in this documentary about Russian space endeavors. American NASA documentaries boast a lot unnecessarily.
Pésima música para un documental tan interesante y serio, mis ojos ven ciencia espacial, astronautas, logros, momentos tensos y momentos gloriosos y mis oidos están oyendo a Tom y Jerry o cartoons de Disney, deberían volver a subir este documental con la musica adecuada.
Terrible music for such an interesting and serious documentary, my eyes see space science, astronauts, achievements, tense moments and glorious moments and my ears are listening to Tom and Jerry or Disney cartoons, they should upload this documentary again with the appropriate music.
☆ WE ARE NOT ALLONE ☆
Maybe we are not allone (sic), but we are alone.
9:14 "gimme dat shit, fuking man can't fix space station, send woman up to do it"
Such a good engineers Russians are . They made a big steps in aeronautics, sadly the management was extremely poor.
Daniel Alcantarilla “management” aka their government treating their cosmonauts and engineers like crap instead of showing them the utmost respect they deserve
28:05 ördek yavrusuna dikkat!:)
I always thought that Mir looked disgustingly squalid.
Why the Xylophones?!
I was in 8th grade!
Kinda looks like a slum compared to the ISS. But that has a charm to it in its own way I guess.
The ISS is also a mess of wires and stuff wherever they can fit it though, if you watch any of the non official tours. And the Russian section does still look vary similar size and organization wise.
connly33 True, it does. But, it must be admitted, it works.
The Family Photo It’s just because it was the precursor to the ISS. Obviously they learned how to keep things cleaner and what to do and not do up there during the 15 year life of the MIR. It’s just time that’s made it look so outdated and shoddy in comparison to the ISS that’s still in operation.
I can’t imagine how cramped and dirty the Salyut got. Would’ve been the pits being jammed in there.
Were they drinking shampers in space why not like first space pub .
I don't think it's still orbiting...
@Vegas
Mir re-entered earth's atmosphere crashed in the early 2000's.
God damn Soviets and their space stations! lol
Кто их снимает карлсон?))
49:01 - looking down on where I live!
Is telivision
It didn't spoke about the shit show it was the deployment of skylab
I really wanted to watch this but the music is so horrible and annoying that I had to stop watching. What on earth were they thinking?
You can see the cables on that first cosmonaut in the video. Jesus Christ !!!
Holy shit you really can 0:09
12 апреля просто умолим, ага...
28:12 says from it's perch 250 mile. LMAO 😂. Perch mean something to sit or hang from. High altitude is not space
this is the music that plays in hell
Hell sounds like a childhood tv show
This bloody documentary would have been much more pleasing to watch were it not for that shitty music!
shitty music kind of makes it honestly
I find it endearing.
MAC C it's not shitty it's autistic uhhh I mean authentic
Agreed - I had to give up after just a few minutes of that jarring noise.
would've really enjoyed this documentary if it wasn't for the bs US propaganda. basically saying 'everything was shit till we (USA) got there' and saved the day
you must have watched a different documentary, or just imagined what you wanted to hear. weirdo
I got the sense that it was going quite well until the Soviet Union collapsed and only after the US started funding it did it start to have issues.
Absy 2183 Nah, everything was shitty up there even after we started sending astronauts up. It’s just because it was up there so long. Damn. It wasn’t a bad space station. It was just built a while ago and people lived in it for a long time so it got really gross and fucked up inside. And nobody knew water would collect behind panels and screw up everything until MIR, and only because of MIR.
TheGreatMoonFrog the issues it had were totally understandable after the amount of time it operated and with how many people lived and worked on it on a continual basis. I don’t think it was so much a funding issue as it was just age. Wear and tear. The same thing with the space shuttles. They weren’t bad crafts, they just had to be used way longer than they were intended to be used.
Absy 2183 exactly. USSR had a space program wich was realy scary. They launched the first satellite, wich caused the fear in the world (no its not a technical marvel XD ). After that they came up wit a shtty plan of shtty space station wich was barely working and as ms US astronaut described it was like living in a truck in a backyard with your kids. Also USSR had a horrible incident and the astronauts died while coming back from the space station. This is a true nightmare. Meanwhile the glorious USA had a different approach of shuttles, basicly aircrafts to space, not shitty one use rockets like the USSR. the 2 shuttles both had failed and exploded with all their crew, 13 astronauts. America is the best XD
All that money spent, and for what?
Lots of valuable science and this station laid the groundworks for the current ISS to succeed.
👨🚀👩🚀
Wow seems like more of death trap than a space station
Great story, awful music
This would of been a great documentary if not for the horrible music that is so much louder than the narrator.
North Korea is building a space station that is based on the mir design.
Welcome to HollyWood😅
Lab rats
MIR..mass exterminate all my enemies in public..now..infinitiously...alpha out.-Rey Garcia, James Oliver
Oribt
SPACE LAB PREDATED MIR. GET YOUR HISTORY RIGHT.
I don't think they said it Mir predated Skylab - Salyut 1 certainly came before Skylab, however.
Idiot. They said that Salyut 1 predated Skylab. Get your frickin names right lol.
this is stupid the earth is flat and space does not exist ! ahahahahah
@@Tsumami__ KOJIMA O.O pls bring endless staircase back I'll pay you back in destroyed pachinko machines
No the earth is a turtle balancing on a pyramid carried by 4 elephants IDIOT!