MIR: Expedition 16
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| No.: | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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| Surname: | Malenchenko | Musabayev | Polyakov |
| Given name: | Yuri Ivanovich | Talgat Amangeldyyevich | Valeri Vladimirovich |
| Job: | Commander | Flight Engineer | Doctor Cosmonaut |
| Spacecraft (Launch): | Soyuz TM-19 | Soyuz TM-19 | Soyuz TM-18 |
| Launch date: | 01.07.1994 | 01.07.1994 | 08.01.1994 |
| Launchtime: | 12:24 UT | 12:24 UT | 10:05 UT |
| Spacecraft (Landing): | Soyuz TM-19 | Soyuz TM-19 | Soyuz TM-20 |
| Landingdate: | 04.11.1994 | 04.11.1994 | 22.03.1995 |
| Landingtime: | 11:18 UT | 11:18 UT | 04:04 UT |
| Mission duration: | 125d 22h 53m | 125d 22h 53m | 437d 17h 58m |
| Orbits: | 1993 | 1993 | 6927 |
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Launch from Baikonur; landing 88 km northeast of
Arkalyk. Docking on MIR spacestation; resident crew partly exchanged; both cosmonauts arrived with Soyuz TM-19 and Doctor cosmonaut Polyakov became the 16th resident crew; the crew conducted medical experiments (research of problems of weightlessness in long-term-mission); experiments in materials science; both cosmonauts performed two EVA's on 09.09.1994 (5h 06m) and 14.09.1994 (6h 01m), in which the stations external insulation was repaired; many problems during this mission, which finally ended with the first successful manual docking of a Progress supply ship at the station by Malenchenko. |
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