Standing inside a "bedroom" in the Russian Mir space station. And (👉🏼swipe) sitting in the seat where a cosmonaut would pilot the station! ~ ~ Mir was the very first modular space station! It was in orbit from 1986 to 2001. An incredible first, but Mir was also riddled with malfunctions. In 1997 one paper described the station as "currently held together with baling wire, duct tape, and healthy doses of WD-40." 😂 In 2001 it was deorbited and ultimately crashed down into the South Pacific Ocean ~ ~ It was an incredible piece of history and I'm so thankful that I was able to get a closer look 🚀👩🏻‍🚀 ~ #XplorationOuterSpace #spacestation #spaceexploration #mirspacestation #cosmonaut #astronaut #Roscosmos #nasa #yurigagarin