Star City
The Training Center was originated as a secret Air Force facility at the end of 50s - beginning of 60s to provide training for Russian cosmonauts. It was named as Zvezdny Gorodok (translated as Star City or Starry Town). From the beginning of 60s, the Star City consists of two parts: the training facility itself and residential area for the military and civilian personnel serving the facility, as well as cosmonauts and their families. Nowadays, NASA astronauts assigned to space station missions spend about 40% of their time training at Star City and the rest at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Russian cosmonauts split their training much the same way.
Russia's Mir Space Station has been in orbit for over 10 years. The first element of the station was launched on February 20, 1986 at an inclination of 51.6 degrees. The current Mir Space Station is actually a complex of different modules that have been pieced together.
The Mir module, the first module of the complex placed in orbit, is the main module of the station. It provides docking ports for the other modules to attach to. There are five docking ports on the transfer compartment of the Mir module. One along the long axis of the module, and 4 along the radius in 90 degree increments. There is another docking port on the aft end of the Mir module. The various modules that are attached to the docking ports can be moved around to different configurations.
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