• toast@retrolemmy.com
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    1 day ago

    What are you talking about? The only part of Mir not launched on a Proton-K was a docking module brought up by, yes, shuttle so that a shuttle could dock to the station and American astronauts could learn about long duration spaceflight from the Russians.

    Shuttles weren’t required for the construction of Mir, just as China is now constructing its space station without the use of a shuttle.

    The idea that shuttles are or were required to learn about long duration space flight is simply wrong

    • gnate@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      To answer your question, I don’t know what I’m taking about, clearly!