Resident Crews of the MIR

MIR: Expedition 1
(EO-1)

Salyut patch
Crew Soyuz T-15

alternate crew photo

alternate crew photo

 

alternate crew photo

 

Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2
Nation: USSR USSR
Surname:  Kizim  Soloviyov
Given names:  Leonid Denisovich  Vladimir Alekseyevich
Job:  Commander  Flight Engineer
Spacecraft (Launch):  Soyuz T-15  Soyuz T-15
Launch date:  13.03.1986  13.03.1986
Launchtime:  12:33 UT  12:33 UT
Spacecraft (Landing):  Soyuz T-15  Soyuz T-15
Landingdate:  16.07.1986  16.07.1986
Landingtime:  13:34 UT  13:34 UT
Mission duration:  125d 00h 00m  125d 00h 00m
Orbits:  1980  1980

Backup Crew

No.: 1 2
Nation: USSR USSR
Surname:  Viktorenko  Aleksandrov
Given names:  Aleksandr Stepanovich  Aleksandr Pavlovich
Job:  Commander  Flight Engineer

Expedition Report

Launch from Baikonur; landing 55 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Docking on new space station MIR; first resident crew of MIR.

The first work was to make the station working and to unload the two Progress 25 and 26 freighters, launched after their arrival.

On 05.05.1986, they undocked from MIR for a day long journey to the Salyut 7 space station and stayed there for 50 days as sixth resident crew. After done work returning to MIR on 26. June 1986. It was the first transfer from one space station to an other space station in space history.

When back on MIR Kizim and Soloviyov installed there some systems taken from Salyut and they performed some scientific experiments. One of these experiments was GEOEX 8, in which some areas of the German Democratic Republic were explored by an airplane, a satellite and from space. This was useful for agriculture, geology and environmental protection.

Before returning back to Earth the crew put he MIR into an automatic working modus.

Photos / Drawings

MIR base block Soyuz T-15 launch
Soyuz T-15 recovery  

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