Cosmic Dancer Video Gallery

The Cosmic Dancer sculpture
on the Mir space station, 1993

Cosmonauts Gennadi Manakov and Alexander Polischuk
Cosmic Dancer mission rehersal in Star City, Russia, 1993

"Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind."
 
Arthur C. Clarke