Resident Crews of the MIR

MIR: Expedition 4
(EO-4)

Patch MIR-4

Crew, launch- and landing data

No.: 1 2 3
Nation: USSR USSR USSR
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: USSR USSR USSR
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).

Photos / Drawings

MIR since 31.03.1987 MIR onboard
Soyuz TM-7 onboard MIR Soyuz TM-4 onboard MIR
MIR-4 onboard Soyuz TM-7 recovery

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