The recent agreements to combine our operations with the Mir station are a good sign, and probably will work out.

But American use and support of the Mir station, now in its 11th year of service, is more than a space venture.

In any case, the Mir station will not be able to move out of the way.

The first Soviet mission intended to turn a profit in space arrived today at the Mir orbital station.

He added that extra supplies were being readied for shipment to her up in the Mir station.

The new problems arose when the astronauts tried to re-enter the Mir station.

The hatch was on Kvant-2, one of three modules attached to the Mir station.

He arrived at the Mir station two days later - its first American guest.

The main purpose was to complete connections of the cooperative solar array to provide more electrical power to the Mir station.

These were the new Mir station and the old Salyut 7 station.