I suspect they left out Shuttle-Mir mainly because they had to leave <i>something</i> out. There have been quite a few Shuttle missions, after all.<br /><br />It might be fun to see a comparable program about the folks at Korolev, to get a feel for the different culture in that mission control center. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>