Mir operations in 1998

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Mir

Mir as seen during the STS-91 Shuttle mission in June 1998.


Missions to Mir in 1998:

Launch
Landing*
Spacecraft
Crew**
Jan. 23
Feb. 1
Endeavor/STS-89
Terrence W. Wilcutt, Joe Franck Edwards, James F. Reilly, Michael P. Anderson, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Salizhan Sharipov, Andrew S. Thomas (ret. STS-91)
Jan. 29
Aug. 25
Soyuz TM-27
Talgat Musabaev, Nikolai Budarin, Leopold Eyharts (France) (ret. Soyuz TM-26)
March 15
May 15
Progress M-38
unmanned
May 15
Oct. 26
Progress M-39
unmanned
June 3
June 12
Atlantis/STS-91
Charles J. Precourt, Dominic L. Pudwill-Gorie, Franklin R. Chang Diaz, Wendy B. Lawrence, Janet Lynn Kavandi, Valery Ryumin
Aug. 13
1999 Feb. 28
Soyuz TM-28
Gennady Padalka, Sergei Avdeev, (ret. Soyuz TM-29) Yuri Baturin (ret. Soyuz TM-27)
Oct. 28
1999 Feb. 4
Progress M-40
unmanned

*Deorbit date for Progress vehicles and Mir modules

**Members of long-term (EO) expeditions are shown in bold

(Sources: 161, 52)


launch

Soyuz TM-27 lifts off on Jan. 29, 1998. Credit: ESA