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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 ...
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 ...
The Spacefacts list includes most flights listed here, but omits twelve: The three failed launches of STS-51-L, Soyuz T-10a and Soyuz MS-10, none of which achieved human spaceflight, the uncrewed launch of Soyuz 34 (which nevertheless returned a crew to Earth), and the eight sub-orbital human spaceflights: Mercury-Redstone 3 and 4, X-15 flights ...
The United States has developed many space programs since the beginning of the spaceflight era in the mid-20th century. The government runs space programs by three primary agencies: NASA for civil space; the United States Space Force for military space; and the National Reconnaissance Office for intelligence space. These entities have invested ...
The "Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans" was to examine ongoing and planned National Aeronautics and Space Administration development activities, as well as potential alternatives and present options for advancing a safe, innovative, affordable, and sustainable human space flight program in the years following Space Shuttle ...
This is a list of visitors to the Mir space station in alphabetical order. Station crew names are in bold. The suffix (twice) refers to the individual's number of Mir visits, not their total number of space flights. Entries without a flag symbol indicate that the person was a citizen from the bloc of countries comprising the former Soviet Union ...
In a statement, a spokesperson for the Secretary of the Air Force tells Scripps News that the potential move of the Air National Guard units into the U.S. Space Force is "to ensure the mission ...
It was used for the first docking to a space station in the history of space flight, with the Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 11 missions that docked to the Soviet space station Salyut 1 in 1971. [1] [15] The docking system was upgraded in the mid-1980s to allow the docking of 20 ton modules to the Mir space station. [16]