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Before, during and after the Shuttle-Mir Program, Mir was tended and resupplied by manned [[Soyuz spacecraft|Soyuz]] capsules and unmanned [[Progress spacecraft|Progress]] vehicles.
In Russian, Mir means "peace," and connotes "community" and "village." Mir's modules and service vehicles had similar names. Kvant means "[[quantum]]," a name derived from its purpose to provide research in [[astrophysics]] by measuring [[electromagnetic spectrum|electromagnetic spectra]] and [[x-ray]] [[emission|emissions]]. Kristall means "[[crystal]]," and a main purpose of this module is to develop biological and materials production technologies in the space environment. Spektr means "[[spectrum]]," so named for its [[Earth's atmosphere|atmospheric]] [[sensor|sensors]]. Priroda means "nature." Progress means the same as it does in English. Soyuz means "union," so named for the [[U.S.S.R.]] (Sovietskii Soyuz = Soviet Union) and because the spacecraft was a union of three smaller modules.
==Phase One==
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