it was a minor miracle that mir had survived for so long but by the late NUMBER_TOKENs with work on the international space station pushing well on the clock was ticking money was always a huge factor and when the russian space agency confirmed they would not fund mir past june NUMBER_TOKEN there was only one option the station would have to be deorbited meaning it would enter our atmosphere where it would burn up there seems to have been a brief reprieve where it looked like mir might be sold to a private investor but to no avail the last few missions involved those on board slowly removing equipment and sending it back down to earth as mere prepared for the end on the NUMBER_TOKENth of august NUMBER_TOKEN the final crew left mir bringing an end to a run of continuous occupation which had lasted for eight days short of NUMBER_TOKEN years ah if i was in charge of russia i'd be like just hang on eight more days guys that we could do NUMBER_TOKEN years but i guess not on the NUMBER_TOKENrd of march NUMBER_TOKEN the end came for the space station over the course of three stages the bars bulk inch closer to earth until it experienced atmospheric re-entry at NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN am utc near nadi and fiji images of the station's remnants could be seen illuminating the sky before crashing into the south pacific ocean around NUMBER_TOKEN a.m the mere space station had ended its life as a geriatric danger but that shouldn't detract from what was an enormous contribution to space travel more than NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN experiments were conducted on mir during its lifespan which dramatically furthered our understanding of living in space while there were smaller modules that were technically classified as space stations before it meer was the first to put it all together and combine numerous modules this was a seismic leap forward that eventually led to the international space station and at a time when the world still remained hugely polarized during the final stages of the cold war it became an extraordinary symbol of peace and cooperation that would have been unheard of just a decade before so i really hope you found that video interesting if you did smash that like button below this is one of my favorite ones for a while i love this space stuff if you've got suggestions like this leave them in the comments below and thank you for watching
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