At one point of the movie, Harry Stamper and the rest of the crew visit the Mir, inadvertently causing a failure in its system and its subsequent destruction. Mir was a space station launched in February 19, 1986 from Baikonur's Cosmodrome (former U.S.S.R., actual Kazakhstan), being the top of the Soviet space program, as the first place out from planet Earth permanently inhabited. It was used as an experimental and investigation laboratory. It was marked as a five year program, but was extended to thirteen years, remaining in outer space until its final destruction, when it crashed into the Pacific Ocean on March 23, 2001. In that time, Mir travelled more than 3.6 billion kilometers (2.25 billion miles) orbiting the planet. "Mir" is a Russian word that means "peace" or "world." Despite what's depicted in this film, Mir was never occupied by only one person at a time and certainly not for 18 months. The only person to ever come close to that was Valeri Polyakov, who spent on the Mir from January 1994 to March 1995, though he had the luxury of 11 different crewmates over those 14 months with between two and five other crewmates serving with him at any given time.

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