Space station and orbiter programs of the Soviet Union, Russia and China: the Salyut stations, the Mir station, the Buran reusable orbiter and the Chinese Tiangong station. A program belongs here when its cited article names one of these stations or the Buran spacecraft. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Mir (Wikipedia)
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Mir (Russian: Мир, IPA: [ˈmʲir]; lit. 'peace' or 'world') was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation.
Salyut Program (Wikipedia)
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The Salyut programme (Russian: Салют, IPA: [sɐˈlʲut], meaning "salute" or "fireworks") was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union.
Tiangong program (Wikipedia)
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The Tiangong program (Chinese: 天宫空间站工程; pinyin: Tiāngōng kōngjiānzhàn gōngchéng; lit. 'Heavenly Palace Space Station Project') is China's space program to create a modular space station, comparable to Mir.
Buran Program (Wikipedia)
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The Buran programme (Russian: Буран, IPA: [bʊˈran], lit. 'Snowstorm' or 'Blizzard') was a Soviet and later Russian reusable spacecraft project to develop the Energia-Buran system, officially known as the Reusable Space System "Buran" (Многоразовая Космическая Система «Буран»), that formally began in 1976 and was suspended in 1993.
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