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\<COLOUR 1> SPACE STATION: \<COLOUR 0> Mir core station
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> February 19, 1986
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH VEHICLE: \<COLOUR 0> Proton (D-1, or SL-13)
\<COLOUR 1> ORBIT: \<COLOUR 0> About 335 km (at time of first crew visit)
\<COLOUR 1> SIZE: \<COLOUR 0> Length - 13.1 metres; maximum diameter - 4.15 metres
\<COLOUR 1> MAIN MODULES: \<COLOUR 0> Transfer compartment, or docking module; work module comprising forward and rear compartments
\<COLOUR 1> CREW FERRY: \<COLOUR 0> Soyuz spacecraft
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> The Mir core module, with its six docking ports, is the basic accommodation/control unit of the Mir space station complex to which other scientific modules are attached.