The Terrifying Story of MIR, Earth's First Outpost in Space
On 12 February 1997, two Russian cosmonauts joined an American astronaut for a routine test mission on board the only permanent manned outpost in space, the dilapidated, eleven-year-old Mir space station. Within two weeks they were fighting the worst fire in space history. This was only the beginning of what would become the most dangerous mission in the history of space travel - an epic, six-month misadventure that would climax in the most harrowing accident in space since Apollo 13.
