Mir missions in 1998

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Mir operations in 1998

Mir

Mir as seen during the STS-91 Shuttle mission in June 1998.

Missions to Mir in 1998:

Launch	Landing*	Spacecraft	Crew**
Jan. 23	Feb. 1	Endeavor/STS-89	Terrence W. Wilcutt, Joe Franck Edwards, James F. Reilly, Michael P. Anderson, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Salizhan Sharipov, Andrew S. Thomas (ret. STS-91)
Jan. 29	Aug. 25	Soyuz TM-27	Talgat Musabaev, Nikolai Budarin, Leopold Eyharts (France) (ret. Soyuz TM-26)
March 15	May 15	Progress M-38	unmanned
May 15	Oct. 26	Progress M-39	unmanned
June 3	June 12	Atlantis/STS-91	Charles J. Precourt, Dominic L. Pudwill-Gorie, Franklin R. Chang Diaz, Wendy B. Lawrence, Janet Lynn Kavandi, Valery Ryumin
Aug. 13	1999 Feb. 28	Soyuz TM-28	Gennady Padalka, Sergei Avdeev, (ret. Soyuz TM-29) Yuri Baturin (ret. Soyuz TM-27)
Oct. 28	1999 Feb. 4	Progress M-40	unmanned

*Deorbit date for Progress vehicles and Mir modules

**Members of long-term (EO) expeditions are shown in bold

(Sources: 161, 52)

launch

Soyuz TM-27 lifts off on Jan. 29, 1998. Credit: ESA