Soyuz TM-21

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Soyuz TM-21

Mission insignia

Mission statistics

Mission name

Soyuz TM-21

Crew size

3 launched / 2 landed

Call sign

Урага́н (Uragan - Hurricane)

Launch date

March 14, 1995
06:11:34 UTC
Gagarin's Start

Landing

September 11, 1995
06:52:40 UTC
108 km NE of Arkalyk (50.67 N; 68.25 E)

Mission duration

181 days 00 hours 41 minutes 06 seconds

Number of orbits

~2,940

Crew photo

From left to right: Norman Thagard, Vladimir Dezhurov, Gennady Strekalov

Related missions

Previous mission	Next mission
Soyuz TM-20	Soyuz TM-22

Soyuz TM-21 was Soyuz mission, a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to the Russian space station Mir. Part of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, the mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, atop a Soyuz carrier rocket, at 06:11:34 UTC on March 14, 1995. It is of note because its launch marked the presence, for the first time ever, of thirteen humans in space simultaneously - three aboard the Soyuz, three aboard Mir and seven aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying STS-67.

The spacecraft carried expedition EO-18 to the space station, including the first American astronaut to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft and board Mir, Norman Thagard, for the American Thagard Increment aboard the station, the first Increment of the Shuttle-Mir program. The three crew members it launched were relieved by Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-71, when they were replaced by expedition EO-19, who returned to earth aboard Soyuz TM-21 on September 11, 1995.

[edit] Crew

Launched:

Vladimir Dezhurov (1) Commander - Russia
Gennady Strekalov (5) Flight Engineer - Russia
Norman Thagard (5) Research Astronaut - United States

Landed:

Anatoly Solovyev (4) Commander - Russia
Nikolai Budarin (1) Flight Engineer - Russia

[edit] Mission parameters

Mass: 7150 kg
Perigee: 201 km
Apogee: 247 km
Inclination: 51.65°
Period: 88.7 minutes

First Mir docking: March 16, 1995, 07:45:26 UTC
First Mir undocking: July 4 1995, 10:55 UTC
Second Mir docking: July 4 1995, 11:39 UTC
Second Mir undocking: September 11 1995, 03:30:44 UTC

[edit] References

Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TM-21. Spacefacts.de (February 19, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
Soyuz TM-21. Encyclopaedia Astronautica (March 12, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.

v • d • e Shuttle-Mir Program

	Main articles	Shuttle-Mir Program · Mir · Space Shuttle

	Missions	STS-60 · STS-63 · Soyuz TM-21 · STS-71 · STS-74 · STS-76 · STS-79 · STS-81 · STS-84 · STS-86 · STS-89 · STS-91

	Increments	Thagard · Lucid · Blaha · Linenger · Foale · Wolf · Thomas

v • d • e Manned spaceflights to Mir

	in chronological order Soyuz T-15 · TM-2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · STS-63 · TM-21 · STS-71 · TM-22 · STS-74 · TM-23 · STS-76 · TM-24 · STS-79 · STS-81 · TM-25 · STS-84 · TM-26 · STS-86 · STS-89 · TM-27 · STS-91 · TM-28 · 29 · 30