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

"There is no way back into the past; the choice, as Wells once said, is the universe--or nothing. Though men and civilizations may yearn for rest, for the dream of the lotus-eaters, that is a desire that merges imperceptibly into death. The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close."
 
Arthur C. Clarke