File:Mir Kvant 1-Base Block-Kvant 2.jpg

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|Description= A view of the Soviet/Russian space station Mir from Soyuz TM-8 following the addition of the Kvant-2 module to the complex on 1989-12-06. In view (from left to right) are Soyuz TM-9, Kvant-1, Base Block and Kvant-2.

|Source= http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/lsda_data/dil_data/msci769.jpg

|Date= 19 February 1990

|Author= Crew of Soyuz TM-8.

|Permission={{Non-free historic image|image has rationale=yes}}

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{{Non-free use rationale

| Description = The Core, Kvant-1 and Kvant-2 modules of the Soviet/Russian space station Mir.

| Source = http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/lsda_data/dil_data/msci769.jpg

| Article = Mir

| Portion = Whole of image, to show the complete station.

| Low_resolution = Yes

| Purpose = To show the 1990 configuration of the Mir complex.

| Replaceability = No - all images of these modules alone were taken by Soviet spacecraft, with the copyright on the photographs retained by the current Russian government. The image cannot be retaken as the station was deorbited in its entirety in 2001.

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