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Mir EO-21 Call sign Skif[1] Number of crew Two / Three Launch 12:34:00, 21 February 1996 (UTC)[1]
08:13:00, March 22, 1996 (UTC)[2] (Lucid)Launch site Baikonur Site 1/5
LC-39 (Lucid)Launch craft Soyuz TM-23
STS-76 (Lucid)Landing 07:42:00, 2 September 1996 (UTC)[1]
12:13:00, September 26, 1996 (UTC)[3] (Lucid)Landing craft Soyuz TM-23
STS-76Mission duration 193.8 days (Onufrienko, Usachyov)
Yury Usachov, Yuri Onufrienko, Shannon LucidPrevious expedition Next expedition Mir EO-20 Mir EO-22 Mir EO-21 was a long-duration mission aboard the Russian Space station Mir, which occurred between February and September 1996. The crew consisted of two Russian cosmonauts, Commander Yuri Onufrienko and Yury Usachov, as well as American astronaut Shannon Lucid. Lucid arrived at the station about a month into the expedition, and left about a week following its conclusion; NASA refers to her mission as NASA-2.[4] She was the second American to have a long-duration stay aboard Mir, the first being Norman Thagard, as a crew member of Mir EO-18; he stayed on the station for 111 days.[5] Some sources refer to her mission as Mir NASA-1, claiming that she was the first American to have a long-duration stay aboard Mir.[6]
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Crew
Mir EO-21 Name Spaceflight Launch Landing Duration Notes Commander Yuri Onufrienko First 21 February 1996
Soyuz TM-232 September 1996
Soyuz TM-23193 days Flight Engineer Yury Usachov Second Flight Engineer Shannon Lucid Fifth 22 March 1996
STS-7626 September 1996
STS-79188 days Aboard the station
for some of Mir EO-22Mission highlights
Crew handover and Mir Cassiopee
On 19 August 1996, the Soyuz TM-24 spacecraft docked with Mir's front port. It brought to the station two of the next long-duration crew, Valery Korzun and Aleksandr Kaleri. The following expedition, Mir EO-22, would be commanded by Korzun. Also aboard Soyuz TM-24 was French astronaut Claudie Haigneré (then called Claudie Andre-Deshays), who's mission is known as Mir Cassiopee.[7][8]
References
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- ^ "STS-76". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/sts76.htm. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "STS-79". http://www.astronautix.com/flights/sts79.htm. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
- ^ "NASA-2". NASA. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/nasa2/nasa2.htm.
- ^ Marsha Freeman (July 2000). Challenges of human space exploration. Springer. pp. 260. ISBN 1852332018.
- ^ "Mir NASA-1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mirnasa1.htm.
- ^ "Mir Cassiopee". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/miriopee.htm.
- ^ "International cooperation in space manned programs realization". Yuri Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Center. http://www.gctc.ru/eng/direct/exter_coop_e.htm. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
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