Astronautics. Space Travel.

John Howard Casper flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including one which performed a record number of rendezvous sequences. He also took part in NASA's effort to resume operations following the Shuttle Columbia accident in February 2003.

The Mir Space Station was the first consistently inhabited long-term research space station. Launched into orbit on February 20, 1986, the station was almost continuously inhabited until March 23, 2001, when it was de-orbited.

Luna was the name of a series of lunar probes launched by the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1976. They were the first man-made objects to attain escape velocity, to impact on the moon, to photograph the "dark side" of the Moon, to soft-land on the moon, to retrieve lunar samples and return them to Earth, and to deploy a rover on the Moon's surface.

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