Resident Crews of the MIR

MIR: Expedition 4
(EO-4)

Crew, launch- and landing data

No.:	1	2	3
Nation:
Surname:	Volkov	Krikalyov	Polyakov
Given names:	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich	Sergei Konstantinovich	Valeri Vladimirovich
Position:	Commander	Flight Engineer	Research Doctor
Spacecraft (Launch):	Soyuz TM-7	Soyuz TM-7	Soyuz TM-6
Launch date:	26.11.1988	26.11.1988	29.08.1988
Launchtime:	15:49 UTC	15:49 UTC	04:23 UTC
Spacecraft (Landing):	Soyuz TM-7	Soyuz TM-7	Soyuz TM-7
Landingdate:	27.04.1989	27.04.1989	27.04.1989
Landingtime:	02:57 UTC	02:57 UTC	02:57 UTC
Mission duration:	151d 11h 08m	151d 11h 08m	240d 22h 34m
Orbits:	2396	2396	3812

Backup Crew

No.:	1	2	3
Nation:
Surname:	Viktorenko	Serebrov	Arzamazov
Given names:	Aleksandr Stepanovich	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich	German Semyonovich
Position:	Commander	Flight Engineer	Research Doctor

Expedition Report

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 140 km northeast Dzhezkasgan.

The original launch date of November 21, 1988 was moved back to permit French president François Mitterrand to attend the launch.

Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR-Kvant complex on 28.11.1988. Scientific work with third resident crew was done. Volkov and Krikalyov together with Polyakov became the fourth resident crew. An EVA by Volkov and Chrétien on 09.12.1988 (5h 57m) was performed, installing the 240 kg French ERA experimental deployable structure and a panel of material samples. Chrétien became the first non-American and non-Soviet cosmonaut to perform a spacewalk.

During this mission experiments in 16 different fields were performed as topografic and spectrografic research of the Earth surface, biological and medical research (incl. blood and heart tests).

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