Resident Crews of the MIR

MIR: Expedition 21
(EO-21)

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Crew MIR-21

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 MIR astronauts

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Crews MIR-21 - MIR-22

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Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2 3
Nation: Russian Federation Russian Federation USA
Surname:  Onufriyenko  Usachyov  Lucid
Given names:  Yuri Ivanovich  Yuri Vladimirovich  Matilda Shannon Wells
Position:  Commander  Flight Engineer  Research Cosmonaut
Spacecraft (Launch):  Soyuz TM-23  Soyuz TM-23  STS-76
Launch date:  21.02.1996  21.02.1996  22.03.1996
Launchtime:  12:34 UTC  12:34 UTC  08:13 UTC
Spacecraft (Landing):  Soyuz TM-23  Soyuz TM-23  STS-79
Landingdate:  02.09.1996  02.09.1996  26.09.1996
Landingtime:  07:41 UTC  07:41 UTC  12:13 UTC
Mission duration:  193d 19h 07m  193d 19h 07m  188d 04h 00m
Orbits:  3066  3066  2977

Backup Crew

No.: 1 2 3
Nation: Russian Federation Russian Federation USA
Surname:  Tsibliyev  Lazutkin  Blaha
Given names:  Vasili Vasiliyevich  Aleksandr Ivanovich  John Elmer
Position:  Commander  Flight Engineer  Research Cosmonaut

Crew MIR-21 (backup)

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Expedition Report

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 107 km southwest of Akmola.

Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR space station on 23.02.1996. Both cosmonauts became the 21st resident crew after crew exchanging.

Onufriyenko and Usachyov performed six EVAs on 15.03.1996 (5h 51m), 20.05.1996 (5h 20m), 24.05.1996 (5h 43m), 30.05.1996 (4h 20m), 06.06.1996 (3h 34m) and 13.06.1996 (5h 42m) carrying out following work: installation of the telescopic boom, the MSCA solar array, the multi-spectral scanner, exchanging materials samples and deploying of a radar antenna.

Protein crystal growth experiments were done. More experiments in materials science using high temperture melting oven "Optizon". The new module Priroda arrived on 26.04.1996. Supplies arrived with cargo spacecraft Progress M-31.

The MIR resident crew was visited by crew of STS-76. Since that time (24.03.1996) U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid completed the 21st resident crew.

Photos / Drawings

MIR since 02.06.1995 MIR since 07.05.1996
crew in training EVA
traditional in-flight photo MIR-21 Lucid onboard MIR
EVA Usachyov EVA
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Last update on February 06, 2012.

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