00:00It all began in the 1970s with Salyut-1, the first Soviet station in 1971,
00:07which showed us how people can live in orbit for months. Then came Skylab in 1973,
00:15NASA's first venture. An unmanned Saturn V tank, which was used for microgravity experiments,
00:21but after only 171 days, it was left uninhabited and crashed in 1979.
00:28The Soviets topped that with Mir in 1986. 15 years of operation, 104 astronauts,
00:38including the record set by Valery Polyakov, with 437 consecutive days.
00:44Mir was a laboratory for biology, material sciences and even commercial crystal growth.
00:50But age and budget cuts led to its controlled re-entry in 2001.
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