>It is amazing how Mir courted disaster[1] but ended its mission without fatalities or serious injuries. Mir is a space station with a crew size of two. Its no

>It is amazing how Mir courted disaster[1] but ended its mission without fatalities or serious injuries. Mir is a space station with a crew size of two. Its not a vehicle that regularly does re-entry. Comparing it to the STS makes no sense and reveals a certain amount of bias on your part. Often when something foreign is criticized on HN, there's always some poster making a half-assed "but, but the US is worse" argument for whatever reason. Its standard Whataboutism. A propaganda technique from the Soviets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism Not everything has to have this cold war us vs them mentality. Space station docking systems is an interesting topic, its a shame you had to drag mindless whataboutism into it. No, its not amazing no one died on it. Space stations are historically very safe with zero deaths in all of humanity's space history. This collsion with the Progress supply ship is interesting from a historical perspective and may answer questions on why the US never got into unmanned remote control solutions like the Soviets did. > in a test intended to establish whether Russia could reduce the cost of Progress missions by eliminating the Kurs automated docking system. At 09:18 UTC, whilst under the control of Vasily Tsibliyev, the Progress spacecraft collided with the space station's Spektr module, damaging both the module itself, and a solar panel. Source: wikipedia.