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I hope the show is more accurate than the first sentence in the linked article.

<"In June 1997 a collision between Mir and a cargo ship attempting to manually dock with it resulted in the decompression of the Russian space station."

Like the commercials say, "Not exactly." The collision caused the depressurization of a single Mir module, not the entire space station. Let's hope the program doesn't exaggerate across the board like that. Admittedly, the old Soviet space and missile program had some problems back then, including a few disasters. But then, so did ours. Nothing on the order of the Nedelin Catastrophe, but we did have the Apollo 1 fire and Challenger.

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