List of manned missions to the Mir space station

Soyuz TM-20 is docked at the bottom of the Mir , as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-63 mission in February 1995

This is the list of manned missions to the Mir space station . I was a very successful Soviet or Russian space station, which was launched on February 19, 1986 and deliberately slowed down on March 23, 2001 and burned up in the earth's atmosphere. It consisted of numerous individual modules that were assembled in orbit . The length of stay of the individual crews ranged from about a week to Valery Polyakov's 14-month flight from January 1994 to March 1995. Polyakov still holds the record for the longest stay in space.

Many of the crews that visited Mir use different spaceships for takeoff and landing; the first example is Alexander Wiktorenko and Muhammed Faris , who took off with Soyuz TM-3 on July 22, 1987 and landed a week later on July 30, 1987 with Soyuz TM-2 . (Without which the largest crew Space Shuttle missions of NASA counted) consisted of six astronauts. It first happened with the pairing of Soyuz TM-7 on November 26, 1988 and lasted three weeks.

date	Spaceship		crew
March 13, 1986	1 Soyuz T-15		Me EO-1  Leonid Kisim (K) Vladimir Solovyov (BI)
July 16, 1986
Vacant
5th February 1987	2 Soyuz TM-2		Me LD-1  Yuri Romanenko (K)	Me EO-2a  Alexander Lawejkin (BI)
July 22, 1987		3 Soyuz TM-3			Me EO-2b  Alexander Alexandrov	Me EP-1  Alexander Viktorenko Muhammed Akhmed Faris
July 30, 1987
December 21, 1987	4 Soyuz TM-4			Me EO-3  Vladimir Titov Musa Manarov		Me LII-1  Anatoly Levchenko
December 29, 1987
June 7, 1988		5 Soyuz TM-5	Me EP-2  Anatoly Solovyov Viktor Savinych Alexandar Alexandrov
17th June 1988
August 29, 1988	6 Soyuz TM-6		Me EP-3  Vladimir Lyakhov Abdul Ahad Mohmand		Me LD-2  Valery Polyakov
September 7, 1988
November 26, 1988		7 Soyuz TM-7	Me EO-4  Alexander Volkov Sergei Krikalev			Mir-Aragatz  Jean-Loup Chrétien
December 21, 1988
April 27, 1989
Vacant
5th September 1989		8 Soyuz TM-8		Me EO-5  Alexander Viktorenko Alexander Serebrov
February 11, 1990	9 Soyuz TM-9		Me EO-6  Anatoly Solovyov Alexander Balandin
19th February 1990
August 1, 1990		10 Soyuz TM-10		Me EO-7  Gennady Manakov Gennady Strekalov
August 9, 1990
2nd December 1990	11 Soyuz TM-11		Me EO-8  Viktor Afanasiev Musa Manarov		Me Kosmoreporter  Toyohiro Akiyama
December 10, 1990
May 18, 1991		12 Soyuz TM-12		Me LD-3 / Sergei Krikalev	Me EO-9  Anatoly Arzebarski	Me Juno  Helen Sharman
May 26, 1991
October 2, 1991	13 Soyuz TM-13		Me EO-10 / Alexander Volkov			Me Austromir  Toqtar Äubäkirow Franz Viehböck
October 10, 1991
March 17, 1992		14 Soyuz TM-14			Me EO-11  Alexander Viktorenko Alexander Kaleri	Me 92  Klaus-Dietrich Flade
March 25, 1992
July 27, 1992	15 Soyuz TM-15		Me EO-12  Anatoly Solowjow Sergei Avdejew	Me-Antares  Michel Tognini
August 10, 1992
January 24, 1993		16 Soyuz TM-16		Me EO-13  Gennady Manakov Alexander Polestschuk
February 1, 1993
July 1, 1993	17 Soyuz TM-17		Me Altair  Jean-Pierre Haigneré		Me EO-14  Vasily Ziblijew Alexander Serebrov
July 22, 1993
January 7, 1994		18 Soyuz TM-18	Me EO-15  Viktor Afanassjew Yuri Usachev	Me LD-4  Valery Polyakov
January 14, 1994
July 1, 1994	19 Soyuz TM-19				Me EO-16  Yuri Malentschenko (K) Talghat Mussabaev (BI)
July 9, 1994
3rd October 1994		20 Soyuz TM-20	Me EO-17  Alexander Viktorenko Jelena Kondakova			Me Euromir 94  Ulf Merbold
November 4, 1994
March 14, 1995	21 Soyuz TM-21				Me EO-18  Vladimir Deschurow Gennady Strekalow Norman Thagard ( NASA-1 )
March 22, 1995
June 27, 1995		22 STS-71 Space Shuttle Atlantis	STS-71  Robert Gibson Charles Precourt Ellen Baker Bonnie Dunbar Gregory Harbaugh	Me EO-19  Anatoly Solovyov Nikolai Budarin
July 7, 1995
September 3, 1995		23 Soyuz TM-22	Mir EO-20 - Euromir 95  Yuri Gidsenko Sergei Avdejew Thomas Reiter
September 11, 1995
November 12, 1995	24 STS-74 Space Shuttle Atlantis			STS-74  Kenneth Cameron James Halsell Jerry Ross William S. McArthur Chris Hadfield
November 20, 1995
February 21, 1996	25 Soyuz TM-23			Me EO-21  Yuri Onufrijenko Yuri Usachev
February 29, 1996
March 22, 1996		26 STS-76 Space Shuttle Atlantis	STS-76  Kevin Chilton Richard Searfoss Linda Godwin Michael Clifford Ronald Sega		NASA-2  Shannon Lucid
March 31, 1996
17th August 1996		27 Soyuz TM-24	Me EO-22  Valery Korsun Alexander Kaleri			Mir-Cassiopée  Claudie Haigneré
September 2, 1996
September 16, 1996	28 STS-79 Space Shuttle Atlantis			STS-79  William Readdy Terrence Wilcutt Thomas Akers Jerome Apt Carl Walz		NASA-3  John Blaha
September 26, 1996
January 12, 1997	29 STS-81 Space Shuttle Atlantis			STS-81  Michael Baker Brent Jett John Grunsfeld Marsha Ivins Peter Wisoff	NASA-4  Jerry Linenger
January 22, 1997
February 10, 1997	30 Soyuz TM-25			Me EO-23  Vasily Ziblijew Alexander Lasutkin		Me 97  Reinhold Ewald
March 2, 1997
May 15, 1997		31 STS-84 Space Shuttle Atlantis	STS-84  Charles Precourt Eileen Collins Carlos Noriega Edward Tsang Lu Jean-François Clervoy Jelena Kondakowa			NASA-5  Michael Foale
May 24, 1997
5th August 1997		32 Soyuz TM-26	Me EO-24  Anatoly Solovyov Pavel Vinogradov
August 14, 1997
September 25, 1997	33 STS-86 Space Shuttle Atlantis			STS-86  James Wetherbee Michael Bloomfield Scott Parazynski Wendy Lawrence Jean-Loup Chrétien Wladimir Titow	NASA-6  David Wolf
October 6, 1997
January 22, 1998	34 STS-89 Space Shuttle Endeavor			STS-89  Terrence Wilcutt Joe Edwards Bonnie Dunbar Michael Anderson James Reilly Salischan Sharipov		NASA-7  Andrew Thomas
January 29, 1998
January 30, 1998	35 Soyuz TM-27			Me EO-25  Talghat Mussabaev Nikolai Budarin	Mir-Pégase  Léopold Eyharts
February 19, 1998
June 2, 1998		36 STS-91 Space Shuttle Discovery	STS-91  Charles Precourt Dominic Gorie Wendy Lawrence Franklin Chang-Diaz Janet Kavandi Valeri Ryumin
June 12, 1998
August 13, 1998		37 Soyuz TM-28	Me EO-26  Gennadi Padalka		Me EO-26/27  Sergei Avdejew	Me EP-4  Yuri Baturin
August 25, 1998
February 20, 1999	38 Soyuz TM-29			Mir EO-27 - Mir Perseus  Viktor Afanassjew Jean-Pierre Haigneré		Me Stefanik  Ivan Bella
February 28, 1999
August 28, 1999
Vacant
April 4, 2000	39 Soyuz TM-30		Me EO-28  Sergej Saljotin (K) Alexander Kaleri (BI)
June 16, 2000

Legend:

• EO : core team (from Russian ЭО, Экспедиция Основная , Ekspedizia Osnownaja), in English: PE (Principal Expedition)
• EP : visiting team (from Russian ЭП, Экспедиция Посещения , Ekspedizia Poseschtschenja), in English: VE (Visiting Expedition)
• K : Commander
• BI : flight engineer
• WK : Science cosmonaut

See also

• List of Mir expeditions

Web links

• Me in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English) - list of launches and EVAs
• List of Mir expeditions spacefacts.de