I sometimes wonder where we would be now, as a species, had the Soviet Union not collapsed and continued its space race with the United States. Would we have already colonized other planets by now, or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 19, 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Mir space station. While this wasn't the first space station launched into ...

On Sept. 19, 1996, the Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station to deliver supplies and equipment. The mission also picked up NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid, who had spent a ...