MIR Banya

MIR, the Russian space station, included a banya (sauna) for cosmonauts built by Rocket and Space Corporation Energia. When in operation, this sauna had an altitude of 254 km and an orbital velocity of 26,000 km/h.

Space Sauna
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ABBYY- Yes it was much funny things with ISS development. But I would like to tell about space sauna.

My father (Komolov Vladimir Viktorovich) was one of developers of shower and sauna for space station. Actually it was project for his graduation from institute. Leter when he came to Energia it became his job to implement both on space station. What he with developers team did for Mir space station.

So cosmonauts enjoyed not only shower but also good sauna during their missions. But one day bosses decided that sauna consumes too much energy and ordered to dismount it from station.

Cosmonauts of current mission said: no way, f***. Bosses were very angry but what can you do when thing which you want to destroy flies 300 kilometers above you. So when mission returned to earth and next team arrived to station they issued this order once again.

Next team said: umm... ok... after all experiments will be done.... Guess what happened. In result they sabotaged order too

So when third mission were about to launch military man was included who received strict orders to dissassemble sauna at any cost And he did this job.

So in turn my father was very angry and dissapointed .

TERENCE SMITH: Mir served as a temporary home for 104 crew members. Most importantly, Mir hasprovided a window on what it might be like to live in space on a day-to-day basis -- living in space, that is, in quarters not much bigger than a greyhound bus. No one knows that better than Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who spent more continuous time in space than anyone: 438 consecutive days-- sometimes taking advantage of a small sauna on board.

Recovering From Space
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