Mir EO-19

Mir EO-19
Mir backdropped by Earth, as seen by the departing STS-71 crew
Mission typeMir expedition
Mission duration75.47 days[1] (launch to landing)
Orbits completed1194
Expedition
Space stationMir
Began29 June 1995 (1995-06-29)
Ended11 September 1995 (1995-09-12)
Arrived aboardSTS-71[2]
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Departed aboardSoyuz TM-21[1]
Crew
Crew sizeTwo
MembersAnatoly Solovyev
Nikolai Budarin
Long-term Mir expeditions
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Mir EO-19 (Russian: Мир ЭО-19, also known as Principal Expedition 19)[3] was the nineteenth crewed expedition to the space station Mir, lasting from June to September 1995. The crew, consisting of Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin, launched on June 27, 1995, aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-71 mission. After remaining aboard Mir for approximately 75 days, Solovyev and Budarin returned aboard the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft on September 11, 1995.[1][4]

EO-19 lasted just under three months and was the only complete all-Russian crewed expedition to Mir in 1995 and was the first Mir expedition launched on an American Space Shuttle. The mission that launched EO-19, STS-71, was the first Space Shuttle docking to Mir.[3]

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  2. ^ "STS-71". Mission Archives. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Mir Principal Expedition 19". Mir Mission Chronicle November 1994—August 1996. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved 30 June 2011.
  4. ^ "Mir: Expedition 19". Spacefacts. Retrieved 25 January 2011.