Soyuz TM-21

Soyuz TM-21
OperatorRussian Space Agency
COSPAR ID1995-010A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.23519Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration181 days, 41 minutes, 6 seconds
Orbits completed~2,940
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-STM No. 70
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TM
ManufacturerEnergia
Launch mass7,170 kg (15,810 lb)
Crew
Crew size3 up, 2 down
LaunchingVladimir Dezhurov
Gennady Strekalov
Norman Thagard
LandingAnatoly Solovyev
Nikolai Budarin
CallsignУрага́н (lit.'Hurricane')
Start of mission
Launch date14 March 1995, 06:11:34 (1995-03-14UTC06:11:34Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U2
End of mission
Landing date11 September 1995, 06:52:40 (1995-09-11UTC06:52:41Z) UTC
Landing site50°40′N 68°15′E / 50.67°N 68.25°E / 50.67; 68.25
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude200 km (120 mi)
Apogee altitude249.6 km (155.1 mi)
Inclination51.65°
Period88.7 minutes
Docking with Mir
Docking portKvant-1
Docking date16 March 1995, 7:45:26 UTC
Undocking date11 September 1995, 3:30:44 UTC
Time docked178 days, 19 hours, 45 minutes, 18 seconds

Launching crew, from left: Thagard, Dezhurov and Strekalov
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TM-21 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir. The mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket, at 06:11:34 UTC on 14 March 1995.[1] The flight marked the first time thirteen humans were flying in space simultaneously, with 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. This included the first American astronaut to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft and board Mir, Norman Thagard, for the American Thagard Increment aboard the station, which was 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. The crew returned to earth aboard Soyuz TM-21 on 11 September 1995.

  1. ^ "Soyuz TM-21". spacefacts.de.