00:01On this day in space.
00:03On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station.
00:09The new component was named Crystal, and it was the third edition sent to Mir since the core module launched
00:13in 1986.
00:15Including the core module, Mir consisted of seven different modules.
00:18Each of them launched individually on Russian Proton rockets, with the exception of one that went up on the space
00:23shuttle Atlantis in 1995.
00:25Mir was the world's first modular space station to be assembled in orbit.
00:30Crystal was 45 feet long and weighed about 20 tons.
00:33The module consisted of two main sections.
00:35One section was dedicated to experiments with material science and biotechnology, as well as astronomical observations.
00:42The other section was used as a docking compartment that would allow American space shuttles to visit the station.
00:47Crystal lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and docked with Mir ten days later.
00:52And that's what happened, on this day in space.
01:00And that's what happened, on this day in space.
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01:01And all of these things, you know, where you got the gift that doesn't Collins and the show.
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