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International Flight No. 163Soyuz TM-18Russia |
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| No. | Surname | Given names | Position | Flight No. | Duration | Orbits | |
| 1 | Afanasiyev | Viktor Mikhailovich | Commander | 2 | 182d 00h 27m | 2880 | |
| 2 | Usachyov | Yuri Vladimirovich | Flight Engineer | 1 | 182d 00h 27m | 2880 | |
| 3 | Polyakov | Valeri Vladimirovich | Doctor Cosmonaut | 2 | 437d 17h 58m | 6927 |
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Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
112 km north of Arkalyk. Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR space station on 10.01.1994. The three cosmonauts became the 15th resident crew of the MIR. Research work by Polyakov during his long-term flight was done. He accomplished 25 different experiments in space flight medicine. Nonmedical research was performed in materials sciences, Earth observation, astrophysics and biosciences. |
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