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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-7 crew to Mir. [4] [5] 11. Soyuz TM-11: 1 December 1990 08:13:32 ~173 days 26 May 1991 10:04:13 Viktor Afanasyev. Musa Manarov Toyohiro Akiyama. Delivered the EO-8 crew to Mir, in addition to the Japanese Kosmoreporter mission. Akiyama, who became the first Japanese citizen to fly in space, returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-10 ...
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.
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 ...
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John Elmer Blaha (born August 26, 1942, in San Antonio, Texas) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of five space missions aboard the Space Shuttle and Mir. Blaha is married to the former Brenda I. Walters of St. Louis, Missouri. They have three children. [1]
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