Mir is the Russian word for village, world, and peace. In fact that is what the Russians are trying to establish, a village in space. Mir is the Russian space program's efforts to maintain people for a long duration of time in space. Mir has completed over 81,350 trips around the Earth. It has been up in space for fourteen years. Cosmonauts and astronauts from many nations have lived on the station and performed experiments of …showed first 75 words of 699 total…

…showed last 75 words of 699 total…people in Russia think its costing too much for this old space station. Others argue that it has done its job and will continue too. Some people say they should just keep it cause now it’s a star from being in Armageddon. No one really knows what is going to happen to Mir, but its has served its purpose by keeping people in space. Mir would at least go out having accomplished many missions.