Russia Drafts Plans To Destroy Mir

Russia's Soviet-era space station Mir will be terminated in late February 2001, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said Monday, Interfax reported.

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Published December 31, 1999 · Updated March 16, 2026

Russia’s Soviet-era space station Mir will be terminated in late February 2001, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov said Monday, Interfax reported. The ageing space craft will be taken out of orbit and allowed to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, the remainder falling into one of the Earth’s oceans, the agency quoted Klebanov as saying.

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