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20012001: Mir completes its mission
A major orbital laboratory reached the end of its service.
Mir was deorbited on 23 March 2001. Its debris fell in a designated area of the South Pacific.
Ending the mission required control of a large complex’s trajectory. Experience from Mir’s long-duration expeditions and international cooperation continued into the next orbital programme.
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