Mir

{{Infobox space station |station = Mir |image = Mir Space Station viewed from Endeavour during STS-89.jpg |image_caption= Mir seen from during STS-89 (28 January 1998) |insignia = Mir insignia.svg |insignia_size = |insignia_caption = Mir insignia |sign = Mir |crew = 3 |launch = 20 February 1986 – 23 April 1996 |launch_pad = |reentry = 23 March 2001, 05:59 UTC |mass = 129,700 kg (285,940 lb) |length = |width = |height = |volume = |pressure = c. 101.3 kPa (29.91 inHg, 1 atm) |perigee = AMSL \bar{x} \!\, |apogee = 374 km (216 nmi) AMSL \bar{x} \!\, |inclination = 51.6 degrees |speed = |period = 91.9 minutes \bar{x} \!\, |orbits_day = 15.7 \bar{x} \!\, |in_orbit = () |occupied = 4,592 |orbits = 86,331 | COSPAR_ID = 1986-017A | SATCAT = 16609 |as_of = 23 March 2001(unless noted otherwise) |stats_ref = |configuration_image = Mir diagram.svg |configuration_size = |configuration_caption= Station elements as of May 1996 |configuration_alt = The main components of Mir shown as a line diagram, with each module highlighted in a different colour |configuration_class = skin-invert-image }}

Mir (, ; ) was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's deorbiting. The station served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and spacecraft systems with a goal of developing technologies required for permanent occupation of space.