Soyuz TM-20 was the twentieth expedition to the Russian
Space Station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time, and is therefore a type of space habitat. It lacks major propulsion or landing systems. An orbital station or an orbital space station ...
Mir
''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...
. It launched Russian cosmonauts
Aleksandr Viktorenko
Aleksandr Stepanovich Viktorenko (; born 29 March 1947) is a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut.
He was selected as a cosmonaut on March 23, 1978, and retired on May 30, 1997. During his active career he had been Commander of Soyuz TM-3, Soyuz TM-8, Soyuz ...
,
Yelena Kondakova
Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova (russian: link=no, Елена Владимировна Кондакóва; born March 30, 1957) is the third Soviet or Russian female cosmonaut to travel to space and the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflig ...
, and German cosmonaut
Ulf Merbold
Ulf Dietrich Merbold (born June 20, 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut who flew to space three times, becoming the first West German citizen in space and the first non-American to fly on a NASA spacecraft. Merbold flew on two Space Shu ...
.
Crew
Mission highlights
The flight carried 10 kg of equipment for use by Merbold in ESA's month-long
Euromir
Euromir was an international space programme in the 1990s. Between the Russian Federal Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA), it would bring European astronauts to the Mir space station.
Euromir was part of a drive in the early 1990 ...
94 experiment program. During automatic approach to Mir's front port, the
spacecraft yawed unexpectedly. Viktorenko completed a manual docking
without additional incident.
See also
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Timeline of longest spaceflights
References
External links
Spaceflight Mission Report
{{Orbital launches in 1994
Crewed Soyuz missions
Spacecraft launched in 1994