Mission type Mir crew transport SATCAT no. 22957 Spacecraft Soyuz 7K-STM No. 67 Dates 8 Jan 1994 – 9 Jul 1994 Landing date 9 July 1994 | COSPAR ID 1994-001A Orbits completed ~2,910 Period 1.5 hours Launch date 8 January 1994 Rocket Soyuz-U2 | |
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Mission duration 182 days, 27 minutes, 1 second Operator Roscosmos State Corporation Members Viktor Afanasyev, Yury Usachov | ||
Soyuz TM-18 was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and landed 112 km north of Arkalyk. TM-18 was a two-day solo flight that docked with the Mir space station on January 10, 1994. The three cosmonauts became the 15th resident crew of the MIR. The crew did research work in space flight medicine, primarily by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov during his long-term flight, and accomplished 25 different experiments.
Mission highlights
18th expedition to Mir.
Afanasyev and Usachev spent 179 days on Mir. Dr. Polyakov was slated to return to Earth on Soyuz-TM 20 in March 1995, after more than 420 days on Mir.
References
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