Mir EO-19
Mir backdropped by Earth, as seen by the departing STS-71 crew | |
| Mission type | Mir expedition |
|---|---|
| Mission duration | 75.47 days (launch to landing) |
| Orbits completed | 1194 |
| Expedition | |
| Space station | Mir |
| Began | 29 June 1995 |
| Ended | 11 September 1995 |
| Arrived aboard | STS-71 Space Shuttle Atlantis |
| Departed aboard | Soyuz TM-21 |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | Two |
| Members | Anatoly Solovyev Nikolai Budarin |
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Long-term Mir expeditions | |
Mir EO-19 (Russian: Мир ЭО-19, also known as Principal Expedition 19) 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.
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.