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

"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."
 
Carl Sagan