List of Mir expeditions explained

This is a chronological list of principal expeditions to Mir, a Soviet/Russian space station in low Earth orbit from 1986–2001. All principal Mir crews (those that were resident long-term on the station) were named, where EO stands for Expedition Operations, and the n is sequentially increased with each expedition. Visiting expeditions, which made short-term visits to the station during handovers between principal expeditions were named, and are excluded from this list (see List of human spaceflights to Mir for details). Mir commanders are listed in italics. "Duration" refers to the crew and does not always correspond to "Flight up" or "Flight down".

ExpeditionCrewLaunch dateFlight upLanding dateFlight downDuration
(days)
Mir EO-1 Leonid Kizim
Vladimir Solovyov
13 March 1986
12:33 UTC
Soyuz T-1516 July 1986
12:34 UTC
Soyuz T-15125.00
75 on Mir
station uncrewed
Mir EO-2 Aleksandr Laveykin5 February 1987
21:38 UTC
Soyuz TM-230 July 1987
01:04 UTC
Soyuz TM-2174.14
Yuri Romanenko29 December 1987
09:16 UTC
Soyuz TM-3326.48
Aleksandr Aleksandrov22 July 1987
01:59 UTC
Soyuz TM-3160.30
Mir EO-321 December 1987
11:18 UTC
Soyuz TM-421 December 1988
09:57 UTC
Soyuz TM-6365.94
Valeri Polyakov29 August 1988
04:23 UTC
Soyuz TM-6Transferred to Mir EO-4
Mir EO-426 November 1988
15:49 UTC
Soyuz TM-727 April 1989
02:57 UTC
Soyuz TM-7151.47
Valeri PolyakovTransferred from Mir EO-3240.94
station uncrewed
Mir EO-55 September 1989
21:38 UTC
Soyuz TM-819 February 1990
04:36 UTC
Soyuz TM-8166.29
Mir EO-611 February 1990
06:16 UTC
Soyuz TM-99 August 1990
07:33 UTC
Soyuz TM-9179.05
Mir EO-71 August 1990
09:32 UTC
Soyuz TM-1010 December 1990
06:08 UTC
Soyuz TM-10130.86
Mir EO-82 December 1990
08:13 UTC
Soyuz TM-1126 May 1991
10:04 UTC
Soyuz TM-11175.08
Mir EO-9 Anatoly Artsebarsky18 May 1991
12:50 UTC
Soyuz TM-1210 October 1991
04:12 UTC
Soyuz TM-12144.64
/ Sergei KrikalevTransferred to Mir EO-10
Mir EO-10 / Aleksandr Volkov2 October 1991
05:59 UTC
Soyuz TM-1325 March 1992
08:51 UTC
Soyuz TM-13175.12
/ Sergei KrikalevTransferred from Mir EO-9311.83
Mir EO-11 Aleksandr Viktorenko
Aleksandr Kaleri
17 March 1992
10:54 UTC
Soyuz TM-1410 August 1992
01:05 UTC
Soyuz TM-14145.59
Mir EO-12 Anatoly Solovyev
Sergei Avdeyev
27 July 1992
06:08 UTC
Soyuz TM-151 February 1993
03:49 UTC
Soyuz TM-15188.90
Mir EO-13 Gennadi Manakov
Aleksandr Poleshchuk
24 January 1993
05:58 UTC
Soyuz TM-1622 July 1993
06:41 UTC
Soyuz TM-16179.03
Mir EO-14 Vasili Tsibliyev
Aleksandr Serebrov
1 July 1993
14:32 UTC
Soyuz TM-1714 January 1994
08:18 UTC
Soyuz TM-17196.74
Mir EO-15 Viktor Afanasyev
Yury Usachev
8 January 1994
10:05 UTC
Soyuz TM-189 July 1994
10:32 UTC
Soyuz TM-18182.02
Valeri PolyakovTransferred to Mir EO-16
Mir EO-16 Yuri Malenchenko
Talgat Musabayev
1 July 1994
12:24 UTC
Soyuz TM-194 November 1994
11:18 UTC
Soyuz TM-19125.95
Valeri PolyakovTransferred from Mir EO-15Transferred to Mir EO-17
Mir EO-17 Aleksandr Viktorenko
Yelena Kondakova
3 October 1994
22:42 UTC
Soyuz TM-2022 March 1995
04:04 UTC
Soyuz TM-20169.22
Valeri PolyakovTransferred from Mir EO-16437.75
Mir EO-18 Vladimir Dezhurov
Gennady Strekalov
Norman Thagard
14 March 1995
06:11 UTC
Soyuz TM-217 July 1995
14:55 UTC
STS-71115.36
Mir EO-19 Anatoly Solovyev
Nikolai Budarin
27 June 1995
19:32 UTC
STS-7111 September 1995
06:52 UTC
Soyuz TM-2175.47
Mir EO-20 Yuri Gidzenko
Sergei Avdeyev
Thomas Reiter
3 September 1995
09:00 UTC
Soyuz TM-2229 February 1996
10:42 UTC
Soyuz TM-22179.07
Mir EO-21 Yuri Onufrienko
Yury Usachev
21 February 1996
12:34 UTC
Soyuz TM-232 September 1996
07:41 UTC
Soyuz TM-23193.80
Shannon Lucid22 March 1996
08:13 UTC
STS-76Transferred to Mir EO-22
Mir EO-22 Valery Korzun
Aleksandr Kaleri
17 August 1996
13:18 UTC
Soyuz TM-242 March 1997
06:44 UTC
Soyuz TM-24196.73
Shannon LucidTransferred from Mir EO-2126 September 1996
12:13 UTC
STS-79188.17
John Blaha16 September 1996
08:54 UTC
STS-79January 22, 1997
14:23 UTC
STS-81128.23
Jerry Linenger12 January 1997
09:27 UTC
STS-81Transferred to Mir EO-23
Mir EO-23 Vasili Tsibliyev
Aleksandr Lazutkin
10 February 1997
14:09 UTC
Soyuz TM-2514 August 1997
12:17 UTC
Soyuz TM-25184.92
Jerry LinengerTransferred from Mir EO-2224 May 1997
13:27 UTC
STS-84132.17
Michael Foale15 May 1997
09:07 UTC
STS-84Transferred to Mir EO-24
Mir EO-24 Anatoly Solovyev
Pavel Vinogradov
5 August 1997
15:35 UTC
Soyuz TM-2619 February 1998
09:10 UTC
Soyuz TM-26197.73
Michael FoaleTransferred from Mir EO-236 October 1997
21:55 UTC
STS-86144.57
David Wolf26 September 1997
02:34 UTC
STS-8631 January 1998
22:36 UTC
STS-89127.83
Andrew Thomas23 January 1998
01:48 UTC
STS-89Transferred to Mir EO-25
Mir EO-25 Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
29 January 1998
16:33:42 UTC
Soyuz TM-2725 August 1998
05:24:44 UTC
Soyuz TM-27207.53
Andrew ThomasTransferred from Mir EO-2412 June 1998
18:00 UTC
STS-91140.63
Mir EO-26 Gennady Padalka13 August 1998
09:43 UTC
Soyuz TM-2828 February 1999
02:14 UTC
Soyuz TM-28198.69
Sergei AvdeyevTransferred to Mir EO-27
Mir EO-27 Viktor Afanasyev
Jean-Pierre Haigneré
20 February 1999
04:18 UTC
Soyuz TM-2928 August 1999
00:34 UTC
Soyuz TM-29188.85
Sergei AvdeyevTransferred from Mir EO-26379.62
station uncrewed
Mir EO-28 Sergei Zalyotin
Aleksandr Kaleri
4 April 2000
05:01 UTC
Soyuz TM-3016 June 2000
00:43 UTC
Soyuz TM-3072.82

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