Answer: mir
AnswerCrossword Clue
MIR15-year orbiter
MIR2001 reentry of note
MIRBeleaguered spacecraft
MIROld space station
MIRFarming commune of old Russia
MIRIt fell into the Pacific in 2001
MIROld Soyuz capsule destination
MIRIt orbited the earth 86,331 times
MIR1986 USSR launch
MIRSoviet launch of 1986
MIRIt crashed in March, 2001
MIRSpacecraft name meaning "peace"
MIRFallen space station
MIRIt came down in March 2001
MIRFormer space docking site
MIR1986 launch
MIRSpace station until 2001
MIRIt was up for just over 15 years
MIRIt fell shortly after the 2001 vernal equinox
MIREarth orbiter for about 15 years
mirvillage commune of peasant farmers in prerevolutionary Russia
MIRAtlantis docked with it
MIRSpace name
MIROld Russian orbiter
MIRRussian satellite
MIRRussian orbiter
MIRSpace station with a docking module recently added
MIRModular space station assembled in orbit
MIRInternational Space Station predecessor
MIRIt fell in March 2001
MIRPeace, in Pinsk
MIRRussian space station
MIRRussian craft
MIR"Atlantis" docked with it
MIRPeace, to Putin
MIROrbiter until 2001
MIRErstwhile orbiter
MIRFallen orbiter
MIR"Bei .. Bist Du Schoen"
MIRAging space station