Maneuver a 3-D model of Mir, sit in the shuttle commander's seat, and read articles about recent Mir events as well as profiles on the US astronauts who lived on the station.

This site is a good summary of what was learned from the successes and failures of Mir—a Russian-American collaborative—and the implications for the upcoming International Space Station.

Find out exactly where Mir is right now; updated every 1 minute.

Learn more about the Russian Space Agency.

Find out more about the new International Space Station at this official NASA Web site.

This book is a comprehensive technical look at the Mir space station.

Here you'll find a survey of the history of space flight from the 1920s to 1995.

This book takes a careful investigative look at Soviet disasters, uncovering secrets that have long been protected.

This is a popular-style account of the development of the Soviet space program and how amateur Western "space sleuths" figured it out. Foreword by Tom Wolfe.

This article is a general overview of Mir, the mistakes made, and the implications for the future.

This article about the collision in 1997 on Mir space station includes related information on cosmonauts Vasili Tsibliyev and Alexander Lazutkin.

This first-hand account from astronaut Shannon Lucid describes life aboard the spacecraft Mir and looks at the future of the International Space Station.

This is a look at the new International Space Station, as well as its economic and political implications.