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The Shuttle–Mir program (Russian: Программа «Мир»–«Шаттл») [a] was a collaborative space program between Russia and the United States that involved American Space Shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir, Russian cosmonauts flying on the Shuttle, and an American astronaut flying aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to allow American astronauts to engage in long-duration ...
Delivered the EO-15 crew to Mir, with Polyakov remaining in space for over 437 days, the current world record for longest single spaceflight. [4] [5] 19. Soyuz TM-19: 1 July 1994 12:24:50 ~124 days 4 November 1994 11:18:26 Yuri Malenchenko. Talgat Musabayev. Delivered the EO-16 crew to Mir. [4] [5] 20. Soyuz TM-20: 3 October 1994 22:42:30 ~166 ...
STS-74 was the fourth mission of the US/Russian Shuttle–Mir program, and the second docking of the Space Shuttle with Mir. Space Shuttle Atlantis lifted off from Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on 12 November 1995. The mission ended 8 days later with the landing of Atlantis back at Kennedy.
This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 1991 to 2000, including the continuation of Russian space station Mir and the American Space Shuttle program, and the first flights to the International Space Station (ISS). The Soviet Union broke up at the end of 1991.
Mir = Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station; ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station. Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics. They did not have specific crew roles, but are listed in the Payload Specialist columns for reasons of space.
The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. Twenty-six teams from around the world participated, ranging from volunteer hobbyists to large corporate-backed operations.
This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 1981 to 1990, spanning the end of the Soviet Union's Salyut space station program, the beginning of Mir, and the start of the US Space Shuttle program. Red indicates fatalities. Green indicates suborbital flights (including flights that failed to attain intended orbit). #
one woman, 35 Mir crew members, 13 double and three triple flights, one quadruple and one quintuple flight United States: 49: 44: eight women, seven Mir crew members, three double flights and one triple flight France: 8: 6: one woman, one Mir crew member, two double flights Germany: 4: 4: one Mir crew member Afghanistan: 1: 1 Austria: 1: 1 ...