It wasn't until the late 1980s when The Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time.

直到20世纪80年代末，也就是苏联发射和平号空间站的时期，人们才开始在太空中居住更长时间。

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To help new researchers get started in the MIR field.

帮助新手从MIR领域开始研究。

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But one of the things the Soviets did was announce the weight of the Mir station.

但是苏联所做的事情之一却是公布和平号空间站的重量。

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The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

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For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

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Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi called for a day of mourning and had urged supporters to come to the funeral.

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To find out whether you can see it, check the Mir viewing tables.

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The first orbital voter was astronaut David Wolf in 1997 while he was on board the Mir Space Station.

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His first was 17 years ago when he flew on the space shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.

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