Resident Crews of the MIR

MIR: Expedition 20
(EO-20)

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Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2 3
Nation:
Surname:  Gidzenko  Avdeyev  Reiter
Given names:  Yuri Pavlovich  Sergei Vasiliyevich  Thomas Arthur
Position:  Commander  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer
Spacecraft (Launch):  Soyuz TM-22  Soyuz TM-22  Soyuz TM-22
Launch date:  03.09.1995  03.09.1995  03.09.1995
Launchtime:  09:00 UTC  09:00 UTC  09:00 UTC
Spacecraft (Landing):  Soyuz TM-22  Soyuz TM-22  Soyuz TM-22
Landingdate:  29.02.1996  29.02.1996  29.02.1996
Landingtime:  10:42 UTC  10:42 UTC  10:42 UTC
Mission duration:  179d 01h 41m  179d 01h 41m  179d 01h 41m
Orbits:  2833  2833  2833

Backup Crew

No.: 1 2 3
Nation:
Surname:  Manakov  Vinogradov  Fuglesang
Given names:  Gennadi Mikhailovich  Pavel Vladimirovich  Arne Christer
Position:  Commander  Flight Engineer  Flight Engineer

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Expedition Report

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 105 km northeast of Arkalyk.

This was the mission "EUROMIR 95". Following a two day solo flight Soyuz TM-22 docked with the MIR space station on September 05, 1995. The crew became the 20th MIR resident crew. During the next months joint Russian-German research work were performed.

EVAs were performed by Sergei Avdeyev and Thomas Reiter (first German performing a spacewalk) on October 20, 1995 (5h 16m), by Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Avdeyev on December 08, 1995 (0h 29m) and Yuri Gidzenko and Thomas Reiter on February 08, 1996 (3h 05m) to install and later retrieve cassettes of the European Space Exposure Facility experiments (ESEF).

The spaceflight took two months longer than planned due of missing money for the following mission. It was the longest space flight of a non Russian to date by Thomas Reiter.

Common work with the crew of STS-74 (November 15, - November 18, 1995) was done.

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Last update on August 08, 2012.