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What happened to the Russsian space station MIR?
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After MIR’s 15 years in space, on Friday, March 23, 2001 it was deorbited and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at 9:00 am Moscow time. MIR broke up over the southern Pacific Ocean. Some of its larger pieces fell into the sea about 3,000 kilometers (1,800 miles) east of New Zealand.
Posted on September 15, 2016 at 7:59 pm
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