The Soviet/Russian space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001.
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Season 8 · Episode 16 · S08E16
“Ed, can you get me forty more seconds of the Mir transmissions?”
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“today's answer was 'anhedonia.' Anhedonia.”
“We're gonna do the Cassini mission to Saturn, and telerobotics, that kind of stuff.”
“What if we lead off the program with the music from '2001: A Space Odyssey'?”
“[Orson Welles voice] Roz, sounds like your show could be a portal from which we can glimpse the promise of the future”