| SPACECRAFT | CREW | LAUNCH | RETURN | DURATION | REMARKS |
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| Vostok 1 (USSR) | Yuri Gagarin | 12-Apr-61 | 12-Apr-61 | 1h:48m | First manned space flight (1 orbit). |
| Mercury-Redstone 3 (USA) | Alan Shepard | 5-May-61 | 5-May-61 | 15m:22s | First American in space (suborbital). Freedom 7. |
| Mercury-Redstone 4 (USA) | Virgil Grissom | 21-Jul-61 | 21-Jul-61 | 15m:37s | Second suborbital flight; spacecraft sank, Grissom rescued. Liberty Bell 7. |
| Vostok 2 (USSR) | Gherman Titov | 6-Aug-61 | 7-Aug-61 | 1d:01h:18m | First flight longer than 24 hours (17 orbits). |
| Mercury-Atlas 6 (USA) | John Glenn | 20-Feb-62 | 20-Feb-62 | 04h:55m | First American in orbit (3 orbits); telemetry falsely indicated heatshield unlatched. Friendship 7. |
| Mercury-Atlas 7 (USA) | Scott Carpenter | 24-May-62 | 24-May-62 | 04h:56m | Initiated space flight experiments; manual retrofire error caused 250 mile landing overshoot. Aurora 7. |
| Vostok 3 (USSR) | Andrian Nikolayev | 11-Aug-62 | 15-Aug-62 | 3d:22h:22m | First twinned flight, with Vostok 4. |
| Vostok 4 (USSR) | Pavel Popovich | 12-Aug-62 | 15-Aug-62 | 2d:22h:57m | First twinned flight. On first orbit came within 3 miles of Vostok 3. |
| Mercury-Atlas 8 (USA) | Walter Schirra | 3-Oct-62 | 3-Oct-62 | 09h:13m | Developed techniques for long duration missions (6 orbits); closest splashdown to target to date (4.5 miles). Sigma 7. |
| Mercury-Atlas 9 (USA) | Gordon Cooper | 15-May-63 | 16-May-63 | 1d:10h:20m | First U.S. evaluation of effects of one day in space (22 orbits); performed manual reentry after systems failure, landing 4 miles from target. Faith 7. |
| Vostok 5 (USSR) | Valeri Bykovsky | 14-Jun-63 | 19-Jun-63 | 4d:23h:08m | Second twinned flight, with Vostok 6. |
| Vostok 6 (USSR) | Valentina Tereshkova | 16-Jun-63 | 19-Jun-63 | 2d:22h:51m | First woman in space; passed within 3 miles of Vostok 5. |
| X-15, Flight 90 (USA) | Walker, Joseph | 19-Jul-63 | 19-Jul-63 | 11m:24s | First rocket-powered aircraft to reach space (FAI definition); sub-orbital reaching 347,800 feet (106,010 m) altitude. |
| X-15, Flight 91 (USA) | Walker, Joseph | 22-Aug-63 | 22-Aug-63 | 11m:09s | Rocket-powered aircraft; sub-orbital reaching 354,200 feet (107,960 m) altitude. |
| Voskhod 1 (USSR) | Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov | 12-Oct-64 | 13-Oct-64 | 1d:00h:17m | Modified Vostok; first three man crew in space; first without space suits. |
| Voskhod 2 (USSR) | Pavel Belyayev, Alexei Leonov | 18-Mar-65 | 19-Mar-65 | 1d:02h:02m | Modified Vostok; first spacewalk by Leonov (10 min) via inflatable airlock. |
| Gemini 3 (USA) | Virgil Grissom, John Young | 23-Mar-65 | 23-Mar-65 | 04h:53m | First American two man crew; first piloted spacecraft to change its orbital path; first computer, allowing onboard calculation of maneuvers. |
| Gemini 4 (USA) | James McDivitt, Edward White | 3-Jun-65 | 7-Jun-65 | 4d:01h:56m | First American spacewalk by White (21 min); first US 4-day flight; manual reentry made after computer failure. |
| Gemini 5 (USA) | Gordon Cooper, Charles Conrad | 21-Aug-65 | 29-Aug-65 | 7d:22h:55m | First use of fuel cells for electric power; evaluated guidance and navigation system. |
| Gemini 7 (USA) | Frank Borman, James Lovell | 4-Dec-65 | 18-Dec-65 | 13d:18h:35m | Longest US flight for 8 years (206 orbits), record until Soyuz 9; rendezvous with Gemini 6. |
| Gemini 6 (USA) | Walter Schirra, Thomas Stafford | 15-Dec-65 | 16-Dec-65 | 1d:01h:51m | First manned rendezvous, to within 2 feet of Gemini 7 (as planned Agena was lost). |
| Gemini 8 (USA) | Neil Armstrong, David Scott | 16-Mar-66 | 17-Mar-66 | 10h:41m | First docking (with Agena) of one space vehicle with another; emergency reentry after control malfunction; first Pacific landing. |
| Gemini 9 (USA) | Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan | 3-Jun-66 | 6-Jun-66 | 3d:00h:21m | 127 min EVA by Cernan; rendezvous but no docking with target; landed 1/2 mile from recovery ship. |
| Gemini 10 (USA) | John Young, Michael Collins | 18-Jul-66 | 21-Jul-66 | 2d:22h:47m | Docked with Agena 10 and used engine to attain record 474 mile (763 km) altitude; rendezvous with Agena 8; 39 min EVA + 49 min SEVA by Collins. |
| Gemini 11 (USA) | Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon | 12-Sep-66 | 15-Sep-66 | 2d:23h:17m | Used Agena engine to attain record 850 mile (1369 km) altitude; 33 min EVA + 128 min SEVA by Gordon; connected Gemini and Agena by tether; first automatic computer-guided reentry. |
| Gemini 12 (USA) | James Lovell, Edwin Aldrin | 11-Nov-66 | 15-Nov-66 | 3d:22h:35m | Final Gemini mission; Agena docking; 126 min EVA + 2 SEVA totaling 204 min by Aldrin; first work carried out during a EVA; automatic computer-guided reentry. |
| Soyuz 1 (USSR) | Vladimir Komarov | 23-Apr-67 | 24-Apr-67 | 1d:02h:48m | Retroparachute failed to open, causing cosmonaut to be killed. |
| Apollo 7 (USA) | Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham | 11-Oct-68 | 22-Oct-68 | 10d:20h:09m | First piloted flight of Apollo spacecraft, command-service module only; first US 3-man flight; live TV footage of crew. |
| Soyuz 3 (USSR) | Georgi Beregovoi | 26-Oct-68 | 30-Oct-68 | 3d:22h:51m | Rendezvous with unmanned Soyuz 2. |
| Apollo 8 (USA) | Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders | 21-Dec-68 | 27-Dec-68 | 6d:03h:01m | First manned lunar orbit and piloted lunar return reentry (CSM only); first manned Saturn V; views of lunar surface televised to Earth. |
| Soyuz 4 (USSR) | Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev (down), Yevgeni Khrunov (down) | 14-Jan-69 | 17-Jan-69 | 2d:23h:21m | First docking of two piloted spacecraft, with Soyuz 5. |
| Soyuz 5 (USSR) | Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev (up), Yevgeni Khrunov (up) | 15-Jan-69 | 18-Jan-69 | 3d:00h:54m | Docked with Soyuz 4; Yeliseyev and Khrunov transfered by EVA to Soyuz 4. |
| Apollo 9 (USA) | James McDivitt, David Scott, Russell Schweickart | 3-Mar-69 | 13-Mar-69 | 10d:01h:01m | First piloted flight of lunar module (Earth orbit); 46 min Schweickart EVA tested lunar suit + 61 min SEVA by Scott. |
| Apollo 10 (USA) | Thomas Stafford, John Young, Eugene Cernan | 18-May-69 | 26-May-69 | 8d:00h:03m | First lunar module orbit of Moon, descent to within 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) of Moon's surface; holds manned speed record, 6.8863 mi/s (11.0825 km/s) at atmosphere entry. |
| Apollo 11 (USA) | Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin Aldrin | 16-Jul-69 | 24-Jul-69 | 8d:03h:19m | First lunar landing made by Armstrong and Aldrin (20-Jul); 151 min lunar EVA; collected 48.5 lb (22 kg) of soil & rock samples; lunar stay time 21h:36m. |
| Soyuz 6 (USSR) | Georgi Shonin, Valeri Kubasov | 11-Oct-69 | 16-Oct-69 | 4d:22h:43m | Rendezvous with Soyuz 7/8; first welding of metals in space. |
| Soyuz 7 (USSR) | Anatoli Filipchenko, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Gorbatko | 12-Oct-69 | 17-Oct-69 | 4d:22h:40m | Triple rendezvous with Soyuz 6/8; space lab construction test made; first time 3 spacecraft, 7 crew members orbited the Earth at once. |
| Soyuz 8 (USSR) | Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev | 13-Oct-69 | 18-Oct-69 | 4d:22h:51m | Triple rendezvous with Soyuz 6/7; part of space lab construction team. |
| Apollo 12 (USA) | Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean | 14-Nov-69 | 24-Nov-69 | 10d:04h:36m | Conrad and Bean made second Moon landing; 2 lunar EVAs totaling 465 min; collected 74.7 lb (33.9 kg) of samples; lunar stay time 31h:31m. |
| Apollo 13 (USA) | James Lovell, John Swigart, Fred Haise | 11-Apr-70 | 17-Apr-70 | 5d:22h:55m | Mission aborted following service module oxygen tank explosion; crew returned safely using lunar module; circumlunar return; holds manned altitude record, 248,665 miles (400,187 km) above Earth's surface. |
| Soyuz 9 (USSR) | Andrian Nikolayev, Vitali Sevastyanov | 1-Jun-70 | 19-Jun-70 | 17d:16h:59m | This flight marked the beginning of working in space under weightless conditions; endurance record for solo craft remains. |
| Apollo 14 (USA) | Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, Edgar Mitchell | 31-Jan-71 | 9-Feb-71 | 9d:00h:02m | Shepard and Mitchell made third Moon landing; 2 lunar EVAs totaling 563 min; collected 96 lb (43.5 kg) of lunar samples; lunar stay time 33h:31m. |
| Salyut 1 (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 19-Apr-71 | 11-Oct-71 | 175d | First space station; occupied by Soyuz 11 crew for 23 days. |
| Soyuz 10 (USSR) | Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Nikolai Rukavishnikov | 22-Apr-71 | 24-Apr-71 | 1d:23h:46m | Adjustment of an improved docking bay between the spacecraft and the orbiting Salyut space station, but no cosmonauts entered the orbiting station. |
| Soyuz 11 (USSR) | Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, Viktor Patsayev | 6-Jun-71 | 29-Jun-71 | 23d:18h:22m | Docked and entered Salyut 1 space station; orbited in Salyut 1 for 23 days; crew died during reentry from loss of pressurization. |
| Apollo 15 (USA) | David Scott, Alfred Worden, James Irwin | 26-Jul-71 | 7-Aug-71 | 12d:07h:12m | Scott and Irwin made fourth Moon landing; first lunar rover use; first deep spacewalk; 3 lunar EVAs totaling 19h:8m; 33 min SEVA by Scott; collected 170 lb (77 kg) of samples; lunar stay time 66h:54m; 38 min Worden EVA-Irwin SEVA; subsatellite released. |
| Apollo 16 (USA) | John Young, Thomas Mattingly, Charles Duke | 16-Apr-72 | 27-Apr-72 | 11d:01h:51m | Young and Duke made fifth Moon landing; 3 lunar EVAs totaling 20h:14m; collected 213 lb (97 kg) of lunar samples; lunar stay time 71:14; 73 min Mattingly EVA-Duke SEVA; subsatellite released |
| Apollo 17 (USA) | Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt | 7-Dec-72 | 19-Dec-72 | 12d:13h:52m | Cernan and Schmitt made sixth piloted lunar landing; 3 lunar EVAs totaling 22h:4m; collected 243 lb (110 kg) of samples; record lunar stay of 74:59; 66 min Evans EVA-Schmitt SEVA. |
| Skylab 1 (USA) | Unmanned space station | 14-May-73 | 11-Jul-79 | 2,249d | First U.S. space station; occupied by Skylab 2, 3 & 4 crews. |
| Skylab 2 (USA) | Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, Paul Weitz | 25-May-73 | 22-Jun-73 | 28d:00h:50m | First American piloted orbiting space station; made long-flight tests, crew repaired damage caused during boost; 2 EVAs totaling 5h:14m + 75 min SEVA. |
| Skylab 3 (USA) | Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma | 28-Jul-73 | 25-Sep-73 | 59d:11h:10m | Crew systems and operational tests, exceeded pre-mission plans for scientific activities; 3 EVAs totaling 13h:46m. |
| Soyuz 12 (USSR) | Vasili Lazarev, Oleg Makarov | 27-Sep-73 | 29-Sep-73 | 1d:23h:16m | After Soyuz 11 accident, new life support equipment was tested. |
| Skylab 4 (USA) | Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, William Pogue | 16-Nov-73 | 8-Feb-74 | 84d:01h:15m | Final Skylab mission; endurance record until Soyuz 26-Salyut 6; 4 EVAs totaling 22h:21m, set then-record spacewalk of 7h:1m. |
| Soyuz 13 (USSR) | Pyotr Klimuk, Valentin Lebedev | 18-Dec-73 | 26-Dec-73 | 7d:20h:56m | Astrophysical observations made with Orion ultraviolet telescope; Earth is photographed. |
| Salyut 3 (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 25-Jun-74 | 24-Jan-75 | 213d | 2nd space station; occupied by Soyuz 14 crew. |
| Soyuz 14 (USSR) | Pavel Popovich, Yuri Artyukhin | 3-Jul-74 | 19-Jul-74 | 15d:17h:30m | Sole occupation of Salyut 3 (no docking). |
| Soyuz 15 (USSR) | Gennadi Sarafanov, Lev Demin | 26-Aug-74 | 28-Aug-74 | 2d:00h:12m | Failed to dock with Salyut 3 because of Soyuz systems failures; first return to Earth during the night. |
| Soyuz 16 (USSR) | Anatoli Filipchenko, Nikolai Rukavishnikov | 2-Dec-74 | 8-Dec-74 | 5d:22h:24m | Trial run with a modified Soyuz capable of docking with the U.S. Apollo spacecraft. |
| Salyut 4 (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 26-Dec-74 | 3-Feb-77 | 770d | 3rd space station; occupied by 2 crews for 93 days. |
| Soyuz 17 (USSR) | Aleksey Gubarev, Georgi Grechko | 10-Jan-75 | 9-Feb-75 | 29d:13h:20m | First Salyut 4 occupation; Soviet endurance record. |
| Soyuz 18A (USSR) | Vasili Lazarev, Oleg Makarov | 5-Apr-75 | 5-Apr-75 | 21m:27s | Launch to Salyut 4 aborted when stage 1 failed to separate; 14g reentry. |
| Soyuz 18B (USSR) | Pyotr Klimuk, Vitali Sevastyanov | 24-May-75 | 26-Jul-75 | 62d:23h:20m | 2nd Salyut 4 occupation; Soviet endurance record. |
| Soyuz 19-ASTP (USSR) | Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov | 15-Jul-75 | 21-Jul-75 | 5d:22h:31m | First U.S./USSR joint flight; docked with Apollo 18 for 2 days; conducted experiments, shared meals, and held a joint news conference. |
| Apollo 18-ASTP (USA) | Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, Donald Slayton | 15-Jul-75 | 24-Jul-75 | 9d:01h:28m | Joint flight with Soyuz 19. |
| Salyut 5 (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 22-Jun-76 | 8-Aug-77 | 412d | 4th space station; occupied by 2 crews for 65 days. |
| Soyuz 21 (USSR) | Boris Volynov, Vitali Zholobov | 6-Jul-76 | 24-Aug-76 | 49d:06h:24m | First Salyut 5 occupation (48 days); acid fumes forced return. |
| Soyuz 22 (USSR) | Valeri Bykovsky, Vladimir Aksyonov | 15-Sep-76 | 23-Sep-76 | 7d:21h:52m | Spacecraft was modified to enable the crew to photograph the Earth. |
| Soyuz 23 (USSR) | Vyacheslav Zudov, Valeri Rozhdestvensky | 14-Oct-76 | 16-Oct-76 | 2d:00h:07m | Docking between the spacecraft and Salyut 5 failed; first Soviet splashdown after emergency return. |
| Soyuz 24 (USSR) | Viktor Gorbatko, Yuri Glazkov | 7-Feb-77 | 25-Feb-77 | 17d:17h:26m | 2nd Salyut 5 occupation. |
| Salyut 6 (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 29-Sep-77 | 28-Jul-82 | 1763d | 5th space station; occupied for 676 days by 5 long stay + 11 visiting crews. |
| Soyuz 25 (USSR) | Vladimir Kovalyonok, Valeri Ryumin | 9-Oct-77 | 11-Oct-77 | 2d:00h:45m | The planned manual docking with Salyut 6 failed. |
| Soyuz 26 (USSR) | Yuri Romanenko (up), Georgi Grechko (up), Vladimir Dzhanibekov (down), Oleg Makarov (down) | 10-Dec-77 | 16-Jan-78 | 37d:10h:06m | First Salyut 6 occupation, returned in Soyuz 27; Progress 1 resupplies the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz 27 (USSR) | Vladimir Dzhanibekov (up), Oleg Makarov (up), Yuri Romanenko (down), Georgi Grechko (down) | 10-Jan-78 | 16-Mar-78 | 64d:22h:53m | First space station dual occupancy; returned in Soyuz 26. |
| Soyuz 28 (USSR) | Aleksey Gubarev, Vladimir Remek | 2-Mar-78 | 10-Mar-78 | 7d:22h:16m | First international crew (USSR and Czechoslovakia), to Salyut 6. |
| Soyuz 29 (USSR) | Vladimir Kovalyonok (up), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (up), Valeri Bykovsky (down), Sigmund Jaehn (down) | 15-Jun-78 | 3-Sep-78 | 79d:15h:24m | First 100+ day flight, to Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 31: Progress 2, 3 & 4 resupply the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz 30 (USSR) | Pyotr Klimuk, Miroslav Hermaszewski | 27-Jun-78 | 5-Jul-78 | 7d:22h:03m | 2nd international crew (USSR and Poland), to Salyut 6. |
| Soyuz 31 (USSR) | Valeri Bykovsky (up), Sigmund Jaehn (up), Vladimir Kovalyonok (down), Aleksandr Ivanchenkov (down) | 26-Aug-78 | 2-Nov-78 | 67d:20h:13m | 3rd international crew (USSR and East Germany), to Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 29. |
| Soyuz 32 (USSR) | Vladimir Lyakhov (up), Valeri Ryumin (up), unmanned (down) | 25-Feb-79 | 13-Jun-79 | 108d:04h:25m | Cosmonauts board Salyut 6; endurance record; returned in Soyuz 34: Progress 5, 6 and 7 resupply the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz 33 (USSR) | Nikolai Rukavishnikov, Georgi Ivanov | 10-Apr-79 | 12-Apr-79 | 1d:23h:01m | 4th international crew (USSR and Bulgaria); failed to dock with Salyut 6 after engine failure. |
| Soyuz 34 (USSR) | Unmanned (up), Vladimir Lyakhov (down), Valeri Ryumin (down) | 6-Jun-79 | 19-Aug-79 | 73d:18h:17m | Delivered for Soyuz 32 crew return to compensate for Soyuz 33 failure. |
| Soyuz 35 (USSR) | Leonid Popov (up), Valeri Ryumin (up), Valeri Kubasov (down), Bertalan Farkas (down) | 19-Apr-80 | 3-Jun-80 | 55d:01h:28m | 4th Salyut 6 long stay; endurance record; returned in Soyuz 37: Progress 8, 9 and 11 resupply the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz 36 (USSR) | Valeri Kubasov (up), Bertalan Farkas (up), Viktor Gorbatko (down), Pham Tuan (down) | 26-May-80 | 31-Jul-80 | 65d:20h:54m | 5th international crew (USSR and Hungary), to Salyut 6; returned to Soyuz 35. |
| Soyuz T-2 (USSR) | Yuri Malyshev, Vladimir Aksyonov | 5-Jun-80 | 9-Jun-80 | 3d:22h:20m | First manned space flight of the new spacecraft; manual docking with Salyut 6. |
| Soyuz 37 (USSR) | Viktor Gorbatko (up), Pham Tuan (up), Leonid Popov (down), Valeri Ryumin (down) | 23-Jul-80 | 11-Oct-80 | 79d:15h:17m | 6th international crew (USSR and Vietnam), to Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 36. |
| Soyuz 38 (USSR) | Yuri Romanenko, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez | 18-Sep-80 | 26-Sep-80 | 7d:20h:43m | 7th international crew (USSR and Cuba), to Salyut 6. |
| Soyuz T-3 (USSR) | Leonid Kizim, Oleg Makarov, Gennadi Strekalov | 27-Nov-80 | 10-Dec-80 | 12d:19h:08m | Resumption of 3-man flights; Salyut 6 repair work: Progress 11 resupplies the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz T-4 (USSR) | Vladimir Kovalyonok, Viktor Savinykh | 12-Mar-81 | 26-May-81 | 74d:17h:37m | Last Salyut 6 long-stay; 50th Soviet/100th spaceman: Progress 12 resupplies the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz 39 (USSR) | Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Jugderdemidiyn Gurragcha | 22-Mar-81 | 30-Mar-81 | 7d:20h:42m | 8th international crew (USSR and Mongolia), to Salyut 6. |
| STS-1, Columbia (USA) | John Young, Robert Crippen | 12-Apr-81 | 14-Apr-81 | 2d:06h:22m | First space shuttle flight; orbital test flight; some thermal tiles lost. |
| Soyuz 40 (USSR) | Leonid Popov, Dumitru Prunariu | 14-May-81 | 22-May-81 | 7d:21h:42m | 9th international crew (USSR and Romania), to Salyut 6; last flight of old Soyuz design. |
| STS-2, Columbia (USA) | Joseph Engle, Richard Truly | 12-Nov-81 | 14-Nov-81 | 2d:06h:14m | First reuse of space shuttle; 2nd orbital test flight; test of Canadian robot arm (RMS); 5-day mission halved by fuel cell fault. |
| STS-3, Columbia (USA) | Jack Lousma, Gorden Fullerton | 22-Mar-82 | 30-Mar-82 | 8d:00h:06m | Third orbital test flight; first experiements; payload: astronomy; landing delayed 1 day by storm. |
| Salyut 7 (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 19-Apr-82 | 7-Feb-91 | 3216d | 6th space station; occupied for 812 days by 10 crews. |
| Soyuz T-5 (USSR) | Anatoli Berezovoi (up), Valentin Lebedev (up), Leonid Popov (down), Aleksandr Serebrov (down), Svetlana Savitskaya (down) | 13-May-82 | 27-Aug-82 | 106d:05h:06m | First Salyut 7 occupation + long stay; returned in Soyuz T-7: Progress 13, 14, 15 and 16 resupply the orbiting complex. |
| Soyuz T-6 (USSR) | Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Jean-Loup Chretien | 24-Jun-82 | 2-Jul-82 | 7d:21h:51m | 10th international crew (USSR and France), to Salyut 7. |
| STS-4, Columbia (USA) | Thomas Mattingly, Henry Hartsfield | 27-Jun-82 | 4-Jul-82 | 7d:01h:11m | Last orbital test flight; first concrete runway landing; SRBs lost; beginning of operations; payload: military. |
| Soyuz T-7 (USSR) | Leonid Popov (up), Aleksandr Serebrov (up), Svetlana Savitskaya (up), Anatoli Berezovoi (down), Valentin Lebedev (down) | 19-Aug-82 | 10-Dec-82 | 113d:01h:51m | Salyut 7 visit; Savitskaya is 2nd woman in space; returned in Soyuz T-5. |
| STS-5, Columbia (USA) | Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, Joseph Allen, William Lenoir | 11-Nov-82 | 16-Nov-82 | 5d:02h:15m | First operational space shuttle mission; first 4-person crew; depolyed 2 communications satellites (COMSATs); EVA cancelled. |
| STS-6, Challenger (USA) | Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald Peterson, Story Musgrave | 4-Apr-83 | 9-Apr-83 | 5d:00h:25m | First Challenger flight; first shuttle EVA; Tracking & Data Relay Satellite (TDRS). |
| Soyuz T-8 (USSR) | Vladimir Titov, Gennadi Strekalov, Aleksandr Serebrov | 20-Apr-83 | 22-Apr-83 | 2d:00h:18m | Failed to dock with Salyut 7 for long stay; radar failed and manual approach aborted. |
| STS-7, Challenger (USA) | Robert Crippen, Frederick Hauck, John Fabian, Sally Ride, Norman Thagard | 18-Jun-83 | 24-Jun-83 | 6d:02h:25m | Ride first U.S. woman in space; first 5-person crew; 2 COMSATs, German platform SPAS-1. |
| Soyuz T-9 (USSR) | Vladimir Lyakhov, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov | 27-Jun-83 | 23-Nov-83 | 149d:10h:46m | Salyut 7 long stay; 2 EVAs added 2 solar panels: Progress 18 resupplies the orbiting complex. |
| STS-8, Challenger (USA) | Richard Truly, Daniel Brandenstein, Dale Gardner, Guion Bluford, William Thornton | 30-Aug-83 | 5-Sep-83 | 6d:01h:10m | Bluford first U.S. black in space; first night launch/ landing; 1 communications satellite deployed. |
| Soyuz T-10A (USSR) | Vladimir Titov, Gennadi Strekalov | 26-Sep-83 | 26-Sep-83 | 05m:13s | Launchpad fire, first use of escape tower. Descent module re-used by T-15. |
| STS-9, Columbia (USA) | John Young, Brewster Shaw, Owen Garriott, Robert Parker, Byron Lichtenberg, Ulf Merbold | 28-Nov-83 | 8-Dec-83 | 10d:07h:48m | Merbold first German on U.S. mission; first 6-person crew; first Spacelab Mission (SL-1). |
| 41-B, Challenger (USA) | Vance Brand, Robert Gibson, Bruce McCandless, Ronald McNair, Robert Stewart | 3-Feb-84 | 11-Feb-84 | 7d:23h:17m | First untethered EVA & testing of MMU jetpack; first Kennedy Space Center landing; 2 COMSATs. |
| Soyuz T-10B (USSR) | Leonid Kizim (up), Vladimir Solovyov (up), Oleg Atkov (up), Yuri Malyshev (down), Gennadi Strekalov (down), Rakesh Sharma (down) | 8-Feb-84 | 11-Apr-84 | 62:22h:41m | First long-stay triple crew, to Salyut 7; 6 EVAs totaling 22h:56m; returned in Soyuz T-11. |
| Soyuz T-11 (USSR) | Yuri Malyshev (up), Gennadi Strekalov (up), Rakesh Sharma (up), Leonid Kizim (down), Vladimir Solovyov (down), Oleg Atkov (down) | 3-Apr-84 | 2-Oct-84 | 181d:21h:49m | 11th international crew (USSR and India), to Salyut 7; returned in Soyuz T-10B. |
| 41-C, Challenger (USA) | Robert Crippen, Francis Scobee, George Nelson, James van Hoften, Terry Hart | 6-Apr-84 | 13-Apr-84 | 6d:23h:41m | First in-orbit satellite retrieval/repair (SMM); LDEF deployment. |
| Soyuz T-12 (USSR) | Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk | 17-Jul-84 | 29-Jul-84 | 11d:19h:15m | Salyut 7 visit; Savitskaya makes first EVA by a woman (3h:45m). |
| 41-D, Discovery (USA) | Henry Hartsfield, Michael Coats, Judith Resnik, Steven Hawley, Richard Mullane, Charles Walker | 30-Aug-84 | 5-Sep-84 | 6d:00h:57m | First flight of Discovery; first commercial payload specialist; 3 communications satellites. |
| 41-G, Challenger (USA) | Robert Crippen, Jon McBride, Kathryn Sullivan, Sally Ride, David Leestma, Marc Garneau, Paul Scully-Power | 5-Oct-84 | 13-Oct-84 | 8d:05h:25m | Garneau first Canadian in space; first 7-person crew; first U.S. woman EVA (Sullivan); first 2-women flight; Environmental satellite ERBS. |
| 51-A, Discovery (USA) | Frederick Hauck, David Walker, Anna Fisher, Dale Gardner, Joseph Allen | 8-Nov-84 | 16-Nov-84 | 7d:23h:46m | First satellite retrieval/return; 2 COMSATs. |
| 51-C, Discovery (USA) | Thomas Mattingly, Loren Shriver, Ellison Onizuka, James Buchli, Gary Payton | 24-Jan-85 | 27-Jan-85 | 3d:01h:34m | First mission dedicated to Dept. of Defense (DOD); classified military payload deployed; 100th manned orbital mission. |
| 51-D, Discovery (USA) | Karol Bobko, Donald Williams, Rhea Seddon, Jeffrey Hoffman, David Griggs, Charles Walker, Jake Garn | 12-Apr-85 | 19-Apr-85 | 6d:23h:56m | Garn first U.S. senator in space; 2 COMSATs, EVA to repair Syncom IV satellite. |
| 51-B, Challenger (USA) | Robert Overmyer, Frederick Gregory, Don Lind, Norman Thagard, William Thornton, Lodewijk van den Berg, Taylor Wang | 29-Apr-85 | 6-May-85 | 7d:00h:10m | 2nd Spacelab science mission; 1 satellite released . |
| Soyuz T-13 (USSR) | Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Viktor Savinykh (up), Georgi Grechko (down) | 6-Jun-85 | 26-Sep-85 | 112d:03h:12m | Reactivation of Salyut 7; Savinykh stayed with Soyuz T-14 crew: Progress 24 resupplies the station. |
| 51-G, Discovery (USA) | Daniel Brandenstein, John Creighton, Shannon Lucid, John Fabian, Steven Nagel, Patrick Baudry, Sultan Salman Al-Saud | 17-Jun-85 | 24-Jun-85 | 7d:01h:40m | Al-Saud first Arab in space; Baudry first Frenchman on U.S. mission; 3 communications satellites. |
| 51-F, Challenger (USA) | Gorden Fullerton, Roy Bridges, Story Musgrave, Anthony England, Karl Henize, Loren Acton, John-David Bartoe | 29-Jul-85 | 6-Aug-85 | 7d:22h:46m | 3rd Spacelab astronomy/science mission. |
| 51-I, Discovery (USA) | Joseph Engle, Richard Covey, James van Hoften, John Lounge, William Fisher | 27-Aug-85 | 3-Sep-85 | 7d:02h:18m | 3 COMSATs, EVA to repair Syncom IV satellite. |
| Soyuz T-14 (USSR) | Vladimir Vasyutin, Aleksandr Volkov, Georgi Grechko (up), Viktor Savinykh (down) | 17-Sep-85 | 21-Nov-85 | 64d:21h:52m | Salyut 7; first mission to be ended by illness (Vasyutin); Grechko returned with Soyuz T-13. |
| 51-J, Atlantis (USA) | Karol Bobko, Ronald Grabe, David Hilmers, Robert Stewart, William Pailes | 3-Oct-85 | 7-Oct-85 | 4d:01h:46m | First flight of Atlantis; 2nd DOD mission: details classfied. |
| 61-A, Challenger (USA) | Henry Hartsfield, Steven Nagel, James Buchli, Guion Bluford, Bonnie Dunbar, Reinhard Furrer, Ernst Messerschmid, Wubbo Ockels | 30-Oct-85 | 6-Nov-85 | 7d:00h:46m | Ockels first Dutchman in space; first 8-person crew; 1st German Spacelab mission (D1). |
| 61-B, Atlantis (USA) | Brewster Shaw, Bryan O'Conner, Mary Cleave, Sherwood Spring, Jerry Ross, Rodolfo Neri Vela, Charles Walker | 27-Nov-85 | 3-Dec-85 | 6d:21h:06m | Vela first Mexican in space; 3 COMSATs, space structures assembly test. |
| 61-C, Columbia (USA) | Robert Gibson, Charles Bolden, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Steven Hawley, George Nelson, Robert Cenker, Bill Nelson | 12-Jan-86 | 18-Jan-86 | 6d:02h:05m | Bill Nelson first U.S. congressman in space; 1 COMSAT, material & astronomy experiments. |
| 51-L, Challenger (USA) | Francis Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe | 28-Jan-86 | None | 01m:13s | Exploded during liftoff, all were killed. |
| Mir (USSR) | Unmanned space station | 20-Feb-86 | 23-Mar-01 | 5,510d | New-generation space station with 6 docking ports; occupied by multiple crews. |
| Soyuz T-15 (USSR) | Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov | 13-Mar-86 | 16-Jul-86 | 125d:00h:01m | First Mir occupation; excursion to Salyut 7 5-May to 26-Jun; two Salyut EVAs totaling 8h:50m; re-used descent module from T-10A abort. |
| Soyuz TM-2 (USSR) | Aleksandr Laveykin, Yuri Romanenko (up), Aleksandr Viktorenko (down), Mohammed Faris (down) | 5-Feb-87 | 30-Jul-87 | 174d:03h:26m | 2nd Mir long stay; Romanenko remained at station and set new endurance record, returned in Soyuz TM-3. |
| Soyuz TM-3 (USSR) | Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Aleksandr Viktorenko (up), Mohammed Faris (up), Yuri Romanenko (down), Anatoli Levchenko (down) | 22-Jul-87 | 29-Dec-87 | 160d:07h:17m | Mir visit; Aleksandrov remained at station replacing Laveykin; Viktorenko & Faris (Syria) returned in Soyuz TM-2. |
| Soyuz TM-4 (USSR) | Vladimir Titov (up), Musa Manarov (up), Anatoli Levchenko (up), Anatoliy Solovyov (down), Viktor Savinykh (down), Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (down) | 21-Dec-87 | 17-Jun-88 | 178d:22h:54m | 3rd Mir long stay occupation; Titov & Manarov swapped with Romanenko & Aleksandrov; endurance record; 3 EVAs totaling 13h:40m; returned in Soyuz TM-6. |
| Soyuz TM-5 (USSR) | Anatoliy Solovyov (up), Viktor Savinykh (up), Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov (up), Vladimir Lyakhov (down), Abdul Mohmand (down) | 7-Jun-88 | 7-Sep-88 | 91d:10h:46m | Mir visit; all returned in Soyuz TM-4. |
| Soyuz TM-6 (USSR) | Vladimir Lyakhov (up), Valeri Polyakov (up), Abdul Mohmand (up), Vladimir Titov (down), Musa Manarov (down), Jean-Loup Chretien (down) | 29-Aug-88 | 21-Dec-88 | 114d:05h:34m | 4th Mir long stay; physician Polyakov remained with Titov & Manarov; Mohmand first Afghan in space, returned in TM-5. |
| STS-26, Discovery (USA) | Frederick Hauck, Richard Covey, John Lounge, George Nelson, David Hilmers | 29-Sep-88 | 3-Oct-88 | 4d:01h:01m | Redesigned shuttle makes first flight; Tracking/Data Relay Satellite TDRS-C. |
| Soyuz TM-7 (USSR) | Aleksandr Volkov, Sergei Krikalyov, Jean-Loup Chretien (up), Valeri Polyakov (down) | 26-Nov-88 | 27-Apr-89 | 151d:11h:08m | 5th Mir long stay; Volkov & Krikalyov swapped with Titov & Manarov; Chretien EVA, returned in Soyuz TM-6; Volkov & Krikalyov in TM-7. |
| STS-27, Atlantis (USA) | Robert Gibson, Guy Gardner, Richard Mullane, Jerry Ross, William Shepherd | 2-Dec-88 | 6-Dec-88 | 4d:09h:06m | 3rd DOD mission; first Lacrosse imaging radar satellite for all-weather day/night reconnaissance. |
| STS-29, Discovery (USA) | Michael Coats, John Blaha, James Bagian, James Buchli, Robert Springer | 13-Mar-89 | 18-Mar-89 | 4d:23h:40m | Data Relay Satellite TDRS-D, experiments. |
| STS-30, Atlantis (USA) | David Walker, Ronald Grabe, Norman Thagard, Mary Cleave, Mark Lee | 4-May-89 | 8-May-89 | 4d:00h:58m | Magellan Venus orbiter launched on IUS stage, arrived Venus Aug 1990. |
| STS-28, Columbia (USA) | Brewster Shaw, Richard Richards, James Adamson, David Leestma, Mark Brown | 8-Aug-89 | 13-Aug-89 | 5d:01h:01m | 4th DOD mission; deployed military satellite for relaying reconnaissance satellite imagery? |
| Soyuz TM-8 (USSR) | Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr Serebrov | 5-Sep-89 | 19-Feb-90 | 166d:06h:58m | 5th Mir long stay; received Kvant 2; 5 EVAs including 2 with maneuvring backpack. |
| STS-34, Atlantis (USA) | Donald Williams, Michael McCulley, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Shannon Lucid, Ellen Baker | 18-Oct-89 | 23-Oct-89 | 4d:23h:40m | Galileo Jupiter orbiter launched on IUS stage, arrived Jupiter Dec 1995. |
| STS-33, Discovery (USA) | Frederick Gregory, John Blaha, Story Musgrave, Manley Carter, Kathryn Thornton | 23-Nov-89 | 28-Nov-89 | 5d:00h:08m | 5th DOD mission; deployed intelligence satellite? |
| STS-32, Columbia (USA) | Daniel Brandenstein, James Wetherbee, Bonnie Dunbar, David Low, Marsha Ivins | 9-Jan-90 | 20-Jan-90 | 10d:21h:02m | Deployed 1 COMSAT, retrieved/returned Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF). |
| Soyuz TM-9 (USSR) | Anatoliy Solovyov, Aleksandr Balandin | 11-Feb-90 | 9-Aug-90 | 179d:01h:18m | 6th Mir long stay; received Kristall; two EVAs. |
| STS-36, Atlantis (USA) | John Creighton, John Casper, Richard Mullane, David Hilmers, Pierre Thuot | 28-Feb-90 | 4-Mar-90 | 4d:10h:19m | 6th DOD mission; deployed reconnaissance satellite. |
| STS-31, Discovery (USA) | Loren Shriver, Charles Bolden, Steven Hawley, Bruce McCandless, Kathryn Sullivan | 24-Apr-90 | 29-Apr-90 | 5d:01h:17m | Deployed Hubble Space Telescope (HST); set Shuttle altitude record of 385 miles (619 km). |
| Soyuz TM-10 (USSR) | Gennadi Manakov, Gennadi Strekalov, Toyohiro Akiyama (down) | 1-Aug-90 | 10-Dec-90 | 130d:20h:36m | 7th Mir long stay; emphasised Kristall materials processing, one EVA. |
| STS-41, Discovery (USA) | Richard Richards, Robert Cabana, William Shepherd, Bruce Melnick, Thomas Akers | 6-Oct-90 | 10-Oct-90 | 4d:02h:11m | Ulysses solar probe launched on IUS stage. |
| STS-38, Atlantis (USA) | Richard Covey, Frank Culbertson, Robert Springer, Carl Meade, Charles Gemar | 15-Nov-90 | 20-Nov-90 | 4d:21h:55m | 7th DOD mission; deployed intelligence satellite? |
| STS-35, Columbia (USA) | Vance Brand, Guy Gardner, Jeffrey Hoffman, John Lounge, Robert Parker, Samuel Durrance, Ronald Parise | 2-Dec-90 | 11-Dec-90 | 8d:23h:06m | Astronomy Spacelab ASTRO, UV/X-ray telescopes. |
| Soyuz TM-11 (USSR) | Viktor Afanasyev, Musa Manarov, Toyohiro Akiyama (up), Helen Sharman (down) | 2-Dec-90 | 26-May-91 | 175d:01h:51m | 8th Mir long stay; 4 EVAs; Akiyama first Japanese in space, returned in Soyuz TM-10. |
| STS-37, Atlantis (USA) | Steven Nagel, Kenneth Cameron, Jerry Ross, Jay Apt, Linda Godwin | 5-Apr-91 | 11-Apr-91 | 5d:23h:34m | Deployed Gamma Ray Observatory (GRO); 2 EVAs (first since 1985). |
| STS-39, Discovery (USA) | Michael Coats, Blaine Hammond, Guion Bluford, Gregory Harbaugh, Richard Hieb, Donald McMonagle, Charles Veach | 28-Apr-91 | 6-May-91 | 8d:07h:23m | Infrared astronomy experiments. |
| Soyuz TM-12 (USSR) | Anatoli Artsebarsky, Sergei Krikalyov (up), Helen Sharman (up), Toktar Aubakirov (down), Franz Viehboeck (down) | 18-May-91 | 10-Oct-91 | 144d:15h:22m | 9th Mir long stay; Sharman first Briton in space, returned in Soyuz TM-11; Artsebarsly in TM-12, Krikalyov in TM-13; 6 EVAs totaling 31h:58m. |
| STS-40, Columbia (USA) | Bryan O'Conner, Sidney Gutierrez, Rhea Seddon, James Bagian, Tamara Jernigan, Drew Gaffney, Millie Hughes-Fulford | 5-Jun-91 | 14-Jun-91 | 9d:02h:15m | First Spacelab for Life Sciences (SLS-1); first dedicated life sciences research. |
| STS-43, Atlantis (USA) | John Blaha, Michael Baker, Shannon Lucid, James Adamson, David Low | 2-Aug-91 | 11-Aug-91 | 8d:21h:22m | Tracking/Data Relay Satellite TDRS-E; Lucid first woman to make 3 fights. |
| STS-48, Discovery (USA) | John Creighton, Kenneth Reightler, James Buchli, Charles Gemar, Mark Brown | 12-Sep-91 | 18-Sep-91 | 5d:08h:28m | Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) deployed. |
| Soyuz TM-13 (USSR) | Aleksandr Volkov, Toktar Aubakirov (up), Franz Viehboeck (up), Sergei Krikalyov (down), Klaus-Dietrich Flade (down) | 2-Oct-91 | 25-Mar-92 | 175d:02h:52m | 10th Mir long stay; first mission with 2 researchers; Viehboeck first Austrian & Aubakirov first Kazakh in space, returned in Soyuz TM-12; Volkov in TM-13; one EVA. |
| STS-44, Atlantis (USA) | Frederick Gregory, Terrence Henricks, Story Musgrave, Mario Runco, James Voss, Thomas Hennen | 24-Nov-91 | 1-Dec-91 | 6d:22h:52m | DOD satellite, contaminations research. |
| STS-42, Discovery (USA) | Ronald Grabe, Stephen Oswald, Norman Thagard, David Hilmers, William Readdy, Roberta Bondar, Ulf Merbold | 22-Jan-92 | 30-Jan-92 | 8d:01h:16m | Spacelab International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1). |
| Soyuz TM-14 (Russia) | Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr Kaleri, Klaus-Dietrich Flade (up), Michel Tognini (down) | 17-Mar-92 | 10-Aug-92 | 145d:14h:11m | 11th Mir long stay; Flade (Germany), returned in Soyuz TM-13; Viktorenko & Kaleri in TM-14; 123m EVA. |
| STS-45, Atlantis (USA) | Charles Bolden, Brian Duffy, Kathryn Sullivan, David Leestma, Michael Foale, Byron Lichtenberg, Dirk Frimout | 24-Mar-92 | 2-Apr-92 | 8d:22h:10m | Frimout first Belgian in space; Atmospheric Lab for Applications & Science (ATLAS-1). |
| STS-49, Endeavour (USA) | Daniel Brandenstein, Kevin Chilton, Pierre Thuot, Kathryn Thornton, Richard Hieb, Thomas Akers, Bruce Melnick | 7-May-92 | 16-May-92 | 8d:21h:19m | First Endeavour flight; 4 EVAs by 4 crew totaling duration record 60.1 manhours; first 3-person EVA; Intelsat-VI recovery and redeployment. |
| STS-50, Columbia (USA) | Richard Richards, Kenneth Bowersox, Bonnie Dunbar, Ellen Baker, Carl Meade, Lawrence DeLucas, Eugene Trinh | 25-Jun-92 | 9-Jul-92 | 13d:19h:31m | US Microgravity Laboratory (USML-1); first Extended Duration Orbiter (EDO); Shuttle duration record. |
| Soyuz TM-15 (Russia) | Anatoliy Solovyov, Sergei Avdeyev, Michel Tognini (up) | 27-Jul-92 | 1-Feb-93 | 188d:21h:41m | 12th Mir long stay; Togini (France) returned in Soyuz TM-14, Solovyov & Avdeyev in TM-15; 4 EVAs totaling 18h:21m. |
| STS-46, Atlantis (USA) | Loren Shriver, Andrew Allen, Jeffrey Hoffman, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Claude Nicollier, Marsha Ivins, Franco Malerba | 31-Jul-92 | 8-Aug-92 | 7d:23h:16m | Nicollier first Swiss and Malerba first Italian in space; EURECA platform deployment; tether experiment TSS-1. |
| STS-47, Endeavour (USA) | Robert Gibson, Curtis Brown, Mark Lee, Jan Davis, Jay Apt, Mae Jemison, Mamoru Mohri | 12-Sep-92 | 20-Sep-92 | 7d:22h:31m | 50th shuttle mission; Jemison 1st black woman in space; Mohri 1st Japanese national; Lee & Davis 1st married couple to travel together in space; first Japanese Spacelab (SL-J). |
| STS-52, Columbia (USA) | James Wetherbee, Michael Baker, Charles Veach, William Shepherd, Tamara Jernigan, Steven MacLean | 22-Oct-92 | 1-Nov-92 | 9d:20h:57m | Deployment of LAGEOS 2; US Microgravity Payload (USMP); materials experiments. |
| STS-53, Discovery (USA) | David Walker, Robert Cabana, Guion Bluford, James Voss, Michael Clifford | 2-Dec-92 | 9-Dec-92 | 7d:07h:21m | Last DOD mission; DOD satellite deployed; laser experiment. |
| STS-54, Endeavour (USA) | John Casper, Donald McMonagle, Mario Runco, Gregory Harbaugh, Susan Helms | 13-Jan-93 | 19-Jan-93 | 5d:23h:39m | Deployment of TDRS-F, Differential X-ray Experiment (DXS), 268 min EVA. |
| Soyuz TM-16 (Russia) | Gennadi Manakov, Aleksandr Polishchuk, Jean-Pierre Haignere (down) | 24-Jan-93 | 22-Jul-93 | 179d:00h:44m | 13th Mir long stay; first docking with Kristall androgynous port; two EVAs. |
| STS-56, Discovery (USA) | Kenneth Cameron, Stephen Oswald, Michael Foale, Kenneth Cockrell, Ellen Ochoa | 8-Apr-93 | 17-Apr-93 | 9d:06h:09m | Crew included the 300th human in space; Ochoa 1st Hispanic woman in space; 2nd Atmospheric Mission ATLAS-2, SPARTAN-2. |
| STS-55, Columbia (USA) | Steven Nagel, Terrence Henricks, Jerry Ross, Charles Precourt, Bernard Harris, Ulrich Walter, Hans Schlegel | 26-Apr-93 | 6-May-93 | 9d:23h:41m | 2nd German Spacelab mission (D2); Earth observation & astronomy experiments; Shuttle program exceeded 1 year aggregate flight time. |
| STS-57, Endeavour (USA) | Ronald Grabe, Brian Duffy, David Low, Nancy Sherlock, Peter Wisoff, Janice Voss | 21-Jun-93 | 1-Jul-93 | 9d:23h:46m | First Spacehab; EURECA retrival; GAS; EVA. |
| Soyuz TM-17 (Russia) | Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Serebrov, Jean-Pierre Haignere (up) | 1-Jul-93 | 14-Jan-94 | 196d:17h:45m | 14th Mir long stay; Haignere (France) returned in Soyuz TM-16, Tsibliyev/ Serebrov in TM-17; five EVAs. |
| STS-51, Discovery (USA) | Frank Culbertson, William Readdy, James Newman, Daniel Bursch, Carl Walz | 12-Sep-93 | 22-Sep-93 | 9d:20h:12m | Adv. Comsat ACTS/TOS deployed; ORFEUS-SPAS; EVA; first KSC night landing. |
| STS-58, Columbia (USA) | John Blaha, Richard Searfoss, Rhea Seddon, William McArthur, David Wolf, Shannon Lucid, Martin Fettman | 18-Oct-93 | 1-Nov-93 | 14d:00h:14m | First dissection in space; 2nd Spacelab for Life Sciences (SLS-2); 2nd EDO, record duration. |
| STS-61, Endeavour (USA) | Richard Covey, Kenneth Bowersox, Story Musgrave, Kathryn Thornton, Claude Nicollier, Jeffrey Hoffman, Thomas Akers | 2-Dec-93 | 13-Dec-93 | 10d:19h:59m | First Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 5 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 35h:28m; Akers set new U.S. EVA duration record (29h:40m). |
| Soyuz TM-18 (Russia) | Viktor Afanasyev, Yuri Usachyov, Valeri Polyakov (up) | 8-Jan-94 | 9-Jul-94 | 182d:00h:27m | 15th Mir long stay; physicain Polyakov remained aboard for record duration, returning with Soyuz TM-20. |
| STS-60, Discovery (USA) | Charles Bolden, Kenneth Reightler, Jan Davis, Ronald Sega, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Sergei Krikalyov | 3-Feb-94 | 11-Feb-94 | 8d:07h:10m | Krikalyov first Russian on U.S. shuttle; attempt to deploy the Wake Shield Facility (a device to create vacuums in space) failed; Spacehab 2. |
| STS-62, Columbia (USA) | John Casper, Andrew Allen, Pierre Thuot, Charles Gemar, Marsha Ivins | 4-Mar-94 | 18-Mar-94 | 13d:23h:18m | Microgravity Payload USMP-2; OAST-2; SSBUV/A; DEE; 3rd EDO. |
| STS-59, Endeavour (USA) | Sidney Gutierrez, Kevin Chilton, Linda Godwin, Jay Apt, Michael Clifford, Thomas Jones | 9-Apr-94 | 20-Apr-94 | 11d:05h:50m | First flight of Space Radar Lab; mapped 20% of Earth surface in three dimensions; environmental studies conducted; CONCAP-IV; GAS; NIH-Experiments; Endeavour made record 412 maneuvres. |
| Soyuz TM-19 (Russia) | Yuri Malenchenko, Talgat Musabayev, Ulf Merbold (down) | 1-Jul-94 | 4-Nov-94 | 125d:22h:54m | 16th Mir long stay, two EVAs. |
| STS-65, Columbia (USA) | Robert Cabana, James Halsell, Richard Hieb, Carl Walz, Leroy Chiao, Donald Thomas, Chiaki Mukai | 8-Jul-94 | 23-Jul-94 | 14d:17h:56m | 2-day flight of International Microgravity Laboratory IML-2; more than 80 experiments conducted; 4th EDO, record duration. |
| STS-64, Discovery (USA) | Richard Richards, Blaine Hammond, Jerry Linenger, Susan Helms, Carl Meade, Mark Lee | 9-Sep-94 | 20-Sep-94 | 10d:22h:51m | Laser experiment LITE; SPARTAN-3; SAFER (EVA); ROMPS. |
| STS-68, Endeavour (USA) | Michael Baker, Terrence Wilcutt, Thomas Jones, Steven Smith, Daniel Bursch, Peter Wisoff | 30-Sep-94 | 11-Oct-94 | 11d:05h:47m | Space Radar Lab SRL-2; GAS; Stamps; secondary payloads. |
| Soyuz TM-20 (Russia) | Aleksandr Viktorenko, Yelena Kondakova, Ulf Merbold (up), Valeri Polyakov (down) | 4-Oct-94 | 22-Mar-95 | 169d:05h:22m | 17th Mir long stay; Merbold (ESA) returned with Soyuz TM-19. |
| STS-66, Atlantis (USA) | Donald McMonagle, Curtis Brown, Ellen Ochoa, Scott Parazynski, Joseph Tanner, Jean-Francois Clervoy | 3-Nov-94 | 14-Nov-94 | 10d:22h:35m | Atmospheric Mission ATLAS-3; CRISTA/SPAS; ESCAPE-2. |
| STS-63, Discovery (USA) | James Wetherbee, Eileen Collins, Michael Foale, Janice Voss, Bernard Harris, Vladimir Titov | 3-Feb-95 | 11-Feb-95 | 8d:06h:30m | Rendezvous with Mir, Spacehab 3, first female pilot (Collins); 2nd Cosmonaut; SPARTAN-4; EVA. |
| STS-67, Endeavour (USA) | Stephen Oswald, William Gregory, Tamara Jernigan, John Grunsfeld, Wendy Lawrence, Ronald Parise, Samuel Durrance | 2-Mar-95 | 18-Mar-95 | 16d:15h:10m | 2nd UV Astronomy Spacelab (ASTRO-2); 5th EDO, record duration. |
| Soyuz TM-21 (Russia) | Vladimir Dezhurov (up), Gennadi Strekalov (up), Norman Thagard (up), Anatoliy Solovyov (down), Nikolai Budarin (down) | 14-Mar-95 | 11-Sep-95 | 181d:00h:41m | 18th Mir long stay; Thagard first NASA researcher; all crew returning on NASA Shuttle STS-71; three EVAs. |
| STS-71, Atlantis (USA) | Robert Gibson, Charles Precourt, Ellen Baker, Bonnie Dunbar, Gregory Harbaugh, Anatoliy Solovyov (up), Nikolai Budarin (up), Vladimir Dezhurov (down), Gennadi Strekalov (down), Norman Thagard (down) | 27-Jun-95 | 7-Jul-95 | 9d:19h:23m | First Mir docking/crew exchange, 100th US human space flight, Spacelab carried. |
| STS-70, Discovery (USA) | Terrence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, Nancy Currie, Donald Thomas, Mary Weber | 13-Jul-95 | 22-Jul-95 | 8d:22h:21m | Deployed TDRS-G; crystal growth and biological experiments. |
| Soyuz TM-22 (Russia) | Yuri Gidzenko, Sergei Avdeyev, Thomas Reiter | 3-Sep-95 | 29-Feb-96 | 179d:01h:42m | 20th Mir long stay; ESA researcher Reiter performed 2 EVAs. |
| STS-69, Endeavour (USA) | David Walker, Kenneth Cockrell, James Voss, James Newman, Michael Gernhardt | 7-Sep-95 | 18-Sep-95 | 10d:20h:30m | Wake Shield Facility (2nd flight); SPARTAN; 30th Shuttle EVA. |
| STS-73, Columbia (USA) | Kenneth Bowersox, Kent Rominger, Kathryn Thornton, Catherine Coleman, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Fred Leslie, Albert Sacco | 20-Oct-95 | 5-Nov-95 | 15d:21h:53m | Spacelab USML-2; educational experiments; 6th EDO. |
| STS-74, Atlantis (USA) | Kenneth Cameron, James Halsell, Jerry Ross, William McArthur, Chris Hadfield | 12-Nov-95 | 20-Nov-95 | 8d:04h:32m | Mir-Docking/2; delivered docking unit for future Shuttle missions & new solar arrays. |
| STS-72, Endeavour (USA) | Brian Duffy, Brent Jett, Leroy Chiao, Daniel Barry, Winston Scott, Koichi Wakata | 11-Jan-96 | 20-Jan-96 | 8d:22h:02m | Retrieved SFU Space Flyer Unit, SPARTAN/OAST Flyer, two EVAs. |
| Soyuz TM-23 (Russia) | Yuri Onufrienko, Yuri Usachyov, Claudie Andre-Deshays (down) | 21-Feb-96 | 2-Sep-96 | 193d:19h:08m | 21st Mir long stay; 6 EVAs totaling 30h:31m. |
| STS-75, Columbia (USA) | Andrew Allen, Scott Horowitz, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Maurizio Cheli, Jeffrey Hoffman, Claude Nicollier, Umberto Guidoni | 22-Feb-96 | 9-Mar-96 | 15d:17h:41m | Microgravity Payload USMP-3; Tether Satellite TSS-1R; OARE; 7th EDO. |
| STS-76, Atlantis (USA) | Kevin Chilton, Richard Searfoss, Linda Godwin, Michael Clifford, Ronald Sega, Shannon Lucid (up) | 22-Mar-96 | 31-Mar-96 | 9d:05h:17m | Mir-Docking/3; Spacehab short module; delivered Lucid for Mir stay; EVA mounted experiments on Mir's docking module. |
| STS-77, Endeavour (USA) | John Casper, Curtis Brown, Daniel Bursch, Mario Runco, Marc Garneau, Andrew Thomas | 19-May-96 | 29-May-96 | 10d:00h:40m | Inflatable Antenna Experiment (IAE); Spacehab 4; PAMS; SPARTAN; TEAMS. |
| STS-78, Columbia (USA) | Terrence Henricks, Kevin Kregel, Susan Helms, Richard Linnehan, Charles Brady, Jean-Jacques Favier, Robert Thirsk | 20-Jun-96 | 7-Jul-96 | 16d:21h:49m | Life & Microgravity Science Spacelab (LMS); SAREX-II; 8th EDO, record duration. |
| Soyuz TM-24 (Russia) | Valeri Korzun, Aleksandr Kaleri, Claudie Andre-Deshays (up), Reinhold Ewald (down) | 17-Aug-96 | 2-Mar-97 | 196d:17h:26m | 22nd Mir long stay; Andre-Deshays (France) returned in Soyuz TM-23; two EVAs. |
| STS-79, Atlantis (USA) | William Readdy, Terrence Wilcutt, Thomas Akers, Jay Apt, Carl Walz, John Blaha (up), Shannon Lucid (down) | 16-Sep-96 | 26-Sep-96 | 10d:03h:20m | Mir-Docking/4; Spacehab double module; crew exchange (Blaha for Lucid); Lucid set new U.S. space endurance record (188d:4h); EVA. |
| STS-80, Columbia (USA) | Kenneth Cockrell, Kent Rominger, Tamara Jernigan, Thomas Jones, Story Musgrave | 19-Nov-96 | 7-Dec-96 | 17d:15h:54m | Wake Shield Facility (3rd flight); ORFEUS-SPAS II; Space Experiment Module (SEM); EVA; 9th EDO, record duration. |
| STS-81, Atlantis (USA) | Michael Baker, Brent Jett, Peter Wisoff, John Grunsfeld, Marsha Ivins, Jerry Linenger (up), John Blaha (down) | 12-Jan-97 | 22-Jan-97 | 10d:04h:56m | Mir-Docking/5; Spacehab-DM; SAREX-II; crew exchange (Linenger for Blaha). |
| Soyuz TM-25 (Russia) | Vasili Tsibliyev, Aleksander Lazutkin, Reinhold Ewald (up) | 10-Feb-97 | 14-Aug-97 | 184d:22h:08m | 23rd Mir long stay; Ewald (Germany) returned in Soyuz TM-24; collision with Progress 25-Jun-97; one EVA. |
| STS-82, Discovery (USA) | Kenneth Bowersox, Scott Horowitz, Joseph Tanner, Steven Hawley, Gregory Harbaugh, Mark Lee, Steven Smith | 11-Feb-97 | 21-Feb-97 | 9d:23h:38m | 2nd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 5 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 33h:11m, replaced 10 instruments. |
| STS-83, Columbia (USA) | James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice Voss, Michael Gernhardt, Donald Thomas, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris | 4-Apr-97 | 8-Apr-97 | 3d:23h:14m | Microgravity Science Lab MSL-1 (returned 12 days early due to fuel cell problem); Reflight as STS-94. |
| STS-84, Atlantis (USA) | Charles Precourt, Eileen Collins, Jean-Francois Clervoy, Carlos Noriega, Edward Lu, Yelena Kondakova, Michael Foale (up), Jerry Linenger (down) | 15-May-97 | 24-May-97 | 9d:05h:21m | Mir-Docking/6; Spacehab-DM; crew exchange (Foale for Linenger). |
| STS-94, Columbia (USA) | James Halsell, Susan Still, Janice Voss, Michael Gernhardt, Donald Thomas, Roger Crouch, Greg Linteris | 1-Jul-97 | 17-Jul-97 | 15d:16h:46m | Microgravity Science Lab MSL-1 reflight. |
| Soyuz TM-26 (Russia) | Anatoliy Solovyov, Pavel Vinogradov, Leopold Eyharts (down) | 5-Aug-97 | 19-Feb-98 | 197d:17h:35m | 24th Mir long stay; 7 EVAs to repair damage caused by Progress collision. |
| STS-85, Discovery (USA) | Curtis Brown, Kent Rominger, Jan Davis, Robert Curbeam, Stephen Robinson, Bjarni Tryggvason | 7-Aug-97 | 19-Aug-97 | 11d:20h:28m | CRISTA/SPAS II; Japanese Manipulaor (MFD); small payloads. |
| STS-86, Atlantis (USA) | James Wetherbee, Michael Bloomfield, Scott Parazynski, Vladimir Titov, Jean-Loup Chretien, Wendy Lawrence, David Wolf (up), Michael Foale (down) | 25-Sep-97 | 6-Oct-97 | 10d:19h:22m | Mir-Docking/7; Spacehab-DM; crew exchange (Wolf for Foale). |
| STS-87, Columbia (USA) | Kevin Kregel, Steve Lindsey, Kalpana Chawla, Winston Scott, Takao Doi, Leonid Kadenyuk | 19-Nov-97 | 5-Dec-97 | 15d:16h:35m | Microgravity Payload USMP-4; SPARTAN-201; 2 EVAs; small payloads. |
| STS-89, Endeavour (USA) | Terrence Wilcutt, Joe Edwards, James Reilly, Michael Anderson, Bonnie Dunbar, Salizhan Sharipov, Andrew Thomas (up), David Wolf (down) | 23-Jan-98 | 31-Jan-98 | 8d:19h:48m | Mir-Docking/8; Spacehab-DM; crew exchange (Thomas for Wolf). |
| Soyuz TM-27 (Russia) | Talgat Musabayev, Nikolai Budarin, Leopold Eyharts (up), Yuri Baturin (down) | 29-Jan-98 | 25-Aug-98 | 207d:12h:51m | 25th Mir long stay; Eyharts (France) returned in Soyuz TM-26; 5 EVAs. |
| STS-90, Columbia (USA) | Richard Searfoss, Scott Altman, Kathryn Hire, Richard Linnehan, Dafydd Williams, Jay Buckey, James Pawelczyk | 17-Apr-98 | 3-May-98 | 15d:21h:51m | Neurolab (16th Spacelab); bioreactor; small payloads (GAS). |
| STS-91, Discovery (USA) | Charles Precourt, Dominic Gorie, Wendy Lawrence, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Janet Kavandi, Valeri Ryumin, Andrew Thomas (down) | 2-Jun-98 | 12-Jun-98 | 9d:19h:55m | Mir-Docking/9; Spacehab-SM; returned Thomas; first GAS payload. |
| Soyuz TM-28 (Russia) | Gennadi Padalka, Sergei Avdeyev (up), Yuri Baturin (up), Ivan Bella (down) | 13-Aug-98 | 28-Feb-99 | 198d:16h:31m | 26th Mir long stay; Baturin returned in Soyuz TM-27; Avdeyev remained aboard Mir; one EVA. |
| STS-95, Discovery (USA) | Curtis Brown, Steve Lindsey, Scott Parazynski, Stephen Robinson, Pedro Duque, Chiaki Mukai, John Glenn | 29-Oct-98 | 7-Nov-98 | 8d:21h:45m | Spacehab-SM, SPARTAN-201; John Glenn reflight. |
| STS-88, Endeavour (USA) | Robert Cabana, Frederick Sturckow, Nancy Currie, Jerry Ross, James Newman, Sergei Krikalyov | 4-Dec-98 | 16-Dec-98 | 11d:19h:19m | 1st International Space Station (ISS) assembly flight 2A, Unity Module; 3 EVAs for 2 crew totaling 21h:22m; first habitation of ISS. |
| Soyuz TM-29 (Russia) | Viktor Afanasyev, Jean-Pierre Haignere, Ivan Bella (up), Sergei Avdeyev (down) | 20-Feb-99 | 28-Aug-99 | 188d:20h:16m | 27th Mir long stay; Bella first Slovak in space, returned in Soyuz TM-28; returned Avdeyev; three EVAs. |
| STS-96, Discovery (USA) | Kent Rominger, Rick Husband, Ellen Ochoa, Tamara Jernigan, Daniel Barry, Julie Payette, Valeri Tokarev | 27-May-99 | 6-Jun-99 | 9d:19h:14m | 2nd ISS assembly flight 2A.1, Spacehab-DM, Starshine; first docking with ISS; 1 EVA for 2 crew totaling 7h:55m. |
| STS-93, Columbia (USA) | Eileen Collins, Jeffrey Ashby, Steven Hawley, Catherine Coleman, Michel Tognini | 23-Jul-99 | 28-Jul-99 | 4d:22h:50m | Deployed Chandra/AXAF; first female commander (Collins). |
| STS-103, Discovery (USA) | Curtis Brown, Scott Kelly, Steven Smith, Michael Foale, John Grunsfeld, Claude Nicollier, Jean-Francois Clervoy | 20-Dec-99 | 28-Dec-99 | 7d:23h:12m | 3rd Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission; 3 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 24h:33m. |
| STS-99, Endeavour (USA) | Kevin Kregel, Dominic Gorie, Janet Kavandi, Janice Voss, Mamoru Mohri, Gerhard Thiele | 11-Feb-00 | 22-Feb-00 | 11d:05h:40m | Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM); used radar systems to obtain high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. |
| Soyuz TM-30 (Russia) | Sergei Zalyotin, Aleksandr Kaleri | 4-Apr-00 | 16-Jun-00 | 72d:19h:42m | 28th & final Mir long stay; reactivated Mir under contract with MirCorp (a private concern); returned 16-Jun-00. |
| STS-101, Atlantis (USA) | James Halsell, Scott Horowitz, Mary Weber, Jeffrey Williams, James Voss, Susan Helms, Yuri Usachyov | 19-May-00 | 29-May-00 | 9d:20h:10m | 3rd ISS assembly flight 2A.2a, Spacehab-DM; 1 EVA for 2 crew totaling 6h:44m. |
| STS-106, Atlantis (USA) | Terrence Wilcutt, Scott Altman, Daniel Burbank, Edward Lu, Richard Mastracchio, Yuri Malenchenko, Boris Morukov | 8-Sep-00 | 20-Sep-00 | 11d:19h:12m | 4th ISS assembly flight 2A.2b, Spacehab-DM; 1 EVA for 2 crew totaling 6h:14m. |
| STS-92, Discovery (USA) | Brian Duffy, Pamela Melroy, Koichi Wakata, Leroy Chiao, Peter Wisoff, Michael Lopez-Alegria, William McArthur | 11-Oct-00 | 24-Oct-00 | 12d:21h:44m | 5th ISS assembly flight 3A, PMA-3, IMAX; 4 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 27h:19m. |
| Soyuz TM-31 (Russia) | Sergei Krikalyov (up), Yuri Gidzenko (up), William Shepherd (up), Talgat Musabayev (down), Yuri Baturin (down), Dennis Tito (down) | 31-Oct-00 | 6-May-01 | 186d:21h:49m | Delivered Expedition 1 crew (Shepherd, Gidzenko, Krikalyov), first ISS extended stay totaling 136 days on ISS; returned in STS-102. |
| STS-97, Endeavour (USA) | Brent Jett, Michael Bloomfield, Joseph Tanner, Carlos Noriega, Marc Garneau | 1-Dec-00 | 11-Dec-00 | 10d:19h:58m | 6th ISS assembly flight 4A, PV Module P6; 3 EVAs for 2 crew totaling 19h:20m. |
| STS-98, Atlantis (USA) | Kenneth Cockrell, Mark Polansky, Robert Curbeam, Thomas Jones, Marsha Ivins | 7-Feb-01 | 20-Feb-01 | 12d:21h:21m | 7th ISS assembly flight 5A, US Lab; 3 EVAs for 2 crew totaling 19h:49m, final EVA 100th in U.S. history. |
| STS-102, Discovery (USA) | James Wetherbee, James Kelly, Andrew Thomas, Paul Richards, Yuri Usachyov (up), James Voss (up), Susan Helms (up), William Shepherd (down), Yuri Gidzenko (down), Sergei Krikalyov (down) | 8-Mar-01 | 21-Mar-01 | 12d:19h:51m | 8th ISS assembly flight 5A.1, Leonardo MPLM; delivered Expedition 2 crew (Usachyov, Voss, Helms), returned Expedition 1 crew (Shepherd, Gidzenko, Krikalyov); 2 EVAs for 4 crew totaling 15h:26m. |
| STS-100, Endeavour (USA) | Kent Rominger, Jeffrey Ashby, Chris Hadfield, Scott Parazynski, John Phillips, Umberto Guidoni, Yuri Lonchakov | 19-Apr-01 | 1-May-01 | 11d:21h:31m | 9th ISS assembly flight 6A, Canadarm2, Raffaello MPLM; 2 EVAs for 2 crew totaling 14h:50m. |
| Soyuz TM-32 (Russia) | Talgat Musabayev (up), Yuri Baturin (up), Dennis Tito (up), Viktor Afanasyev (down), Konstantin Kozeyev (down), Claudie Haignere (down) | 28-Apr-01 | 31-Oct-01 | 185d:21h:23m | Exchanged Soyuz TM-32 for TM-31 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; Tito first space "tourist" having paid $20 million for trip. |
| STS-104, Atlantis (USA) | Steve Lindsey, Charles Hobaugh, Michael Gernhardt, James Reilly, Janet Kavandi | 12-Jul-01 | 25-Jul-01 | 12d:18h:37m | 10th ISS assembly flight 7A, ISS Airlock; 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 16h:30m. |
| STS-105, Discovery (USA) | Scott Horowitz, Frederick Sturckow, Daniel Barry, Patrick Forrester, Frank Culbertson (up), Vladimir Dezhurov (up), Mikhail Tyurin (up), Yuri Usachyov (down), James Voss (down), Susan Helms (down) | 10-Aug-01 | 22-Aug-01 | 11d:21h:14m | 11th ISS assembly flight 7A.1, Leonardo MPLM; delivered Expedition 3 crew (Culbertson, Dezhurov, Tyurin), returned Expedition 2 crew (Usachyov, Voss, Helms); 2 EVAs for 2 crew totaling 11h:45m. |
| Soyuz TM-33 (Russia) | Viktor Afanasyev (up), Konstantin Kozeyev (up), Claudie Haignere (up), Yuri Gidzenko (down), Roberto Vittori (down), Mark Shuttleworth (down) | 21-Oct-01 | 5-May-02 | 195d:18h:52m | Exchanged Soyuz TM-33 for TM-32 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle. |
| STS-108, Endeavour (USA) | Dominic Gorie, Mark Kelly, Linda Godwin, Daniel Tani, Yuri Onufrienko (up), Carl Walz (up), Daniel Bursch (up), Frank Culbertson (down), Vladimir Dezhurov (down), Mikhail Tyurin (down) | 5-Dec-01 | 17-Dec-01 | 11d:19h:37m | ISS utilization flight UF-1, Raffaello MPLM, GAS, MACH-1; delivered Expedition 4 crew (Onufrienko, Walz, Bursch), returned Expedition 3 crew (Culbertson, Dezhurov, Tyurin); 1 EVA for 2 crew totaling 4h:12m. |
| STS-109, Columbia (USA) | Scott Altman, Duane Carey, John Grunsfeld, Nancy Currie, James Newman, Richard Linnehan, Michael Massimino | 1-Mar-02 | 12-Mar-02 | 10d:22h:11m | 4th Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS); 5 EVA for 4 crew totaling 35h:55m. |
| STS-110, Atlantis (USA) | Michael Bloomfield, Stephen Frick, Jerry Ross, Steven Smith, Ellen Ochoa, Lee Morin, Rex Walheim | 8-Apr-02 | 19-Apr-02 | 10d:19h:44m | ISS assembly flight 8A, Center Integrated Truss Assembly S0 (ITS S0), Mobile Transporter (MT); 4 EVA for 4 crew totaling 28h:22m. |
| Soyuz TM-34 (Russia) | Yuri Gidzenko (up), Roberto Vittori (up), Mark Shuttleworth (up), Sergei Zalyotin (down), Frank De Winne (down), Yuri Lonchakov (down) | 25-Apr-02 | 10-Nov-02 | 198d:17h:38m | Exchanged Soyuz TM-34 for TM-33 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; Shuttleworth first South African in space and 2nd space tourist. |
| STS-111, Endeavour (USA) | Kenneth Cockrell, Paul Lockhart, Franklin Chang-Diaz, Philippe Perrin, Valeri Korzun (up), Sergei Treschev (up), Peggy Whitson (up), Yuri Onufrienko (down), Carl Walz (down), Daniel Bursch (down) | 5-Jun-02 | 19-Jun-02 | 13d:20h:36m | ISS utilization flight UF-2, Leonardo MPLM, Mobile Base System (MBS); delivered Expedition 5 crew (Korzun, Treschev, Whitson), returned Expedition 4 crew (Onufrienko, Walz, Bursch); 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 19h:31m. |
| STS-112, Atlantis (USA) | Jeffrey Ashby, Pamela Melroy, David Wolf, Piers Sellers, Sandra Magnus, Fyodor Yurchikhin | 7-Oct-02 | 18-Oct-02 | 10d:19h:59m | ISS assembly flight 9A, Integrated Truss Assembly S1 (ITS S1), Crew Equipment Translation Aid (CETA); 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 19h:41m. |
| Soyuz TMA-1 (Russia) | Sergei Zalyotin (up), Frank De Winne (up), Yuri Lonchakov (up), Nikolai Budarin (down), Kenneth Bowersox (down), Donald Pettit (down) | 30-Oct-02 | 04-May-03 | 185d:22h:56m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-1 for TM-34 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; returned Expedition 6 crew (Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit). |
| STS-113, Endeavour (USA) | James Wetherbee, Paul Lockhart, Michael Lopez-Alegria, John Herrington, Kenneth Bowersox (up), Nikolai Budarin (up), Donald Pettit (up), Valeri Korzun (down), Sergei Treschev (down), Peggy Whitson (down) | 24-Nov-02 | 7-Dec-02 | 13d:18h:49m | ISS assembly flight 11A, Integrated Truss Assembly P1 (ITS P1), CETA; delivered Expedition 6 crew (Bowersox, Budarin, Pettit), returned Expedition 5 crew (Korzun, Treschev, Whitson); 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 19h:55m. |
| STS-107, Columbia (USA) | Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, Ilan Ramon | 16-Jan-03 | 1-Feb-03 | 15d:22h:20m | Spacehab-DM, Freestar; Ramon first Israeli in space; orbiter broke up during reentry resulting in the loss of both vehicle and crew. |
| Soyuz TMA-2 (Russia) | Yuri Malenchenko, Edward Lu, Pedro Duque (down) | 26-Apr-03 | 27-Oct-03 | 183d:22h:47m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-2 for TMA-1 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned Expedition 7 crew (Malenchenko, Lu). |
| Shenzhou 5 (China) | Yang Liwei | 15-Oct-03 | 15-Oct-03 | 21h:23m | First Chinese manned flight (14 orbits). |
| Soyuz TMA-3 (Russia) | Aleksandr Kaleri, Michael Foale, Pedro Duque (up), Andre Kuipers (down) | 18-Oct-03 | 30-Apr-04 | 194d:18h:33m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-3 for TMA-2 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned Expedition 8 crew (Foale, Kaleri); Duque first Spaniard in space. |
| Soyuz TMA-4 (Russia) | Gennadi Padalka, E. Michael Fincke, Andre Kuipers (up), Yuri Shargin (down) | 19-Apr-04 | 24-Oct-04 | 187d:21h:16m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-4 for TMA-3 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned Expedition 9 crew (Padalka, Fincke). |
| SpaceShipOne, Flight 15 (private) | Michael Melvill | 21-Jun-04 | 21-Jun-04 | 24m:05s | First privately funded, non-government manned space flight; suborbital reaching 328,491 feet (100,124 m) altitude. |
| SpaceShipOne, Flight 16 (private) | Michael Melvill | 29-Sep-04 | 29-Sep-04 | 24m:11s | First of two flights to claim Ansari X-prize; suborbital reaching 337,569 feet (102,891 m) altitude. |
| SpaceShipOne, Flight 17 (private) | Brian Binnie | 4-Oct-04 | 4-Oct-04 | 23m:56s | Second of two flights to claim Ansari X-prize; suborbital reaching 367,442 feet (111,997 m) setting rocket-plane altitude record. |
| Soyuz TMA-5 (Russia) | Salizhan Sharipov, Leroy Chiao, Yuri Shargin (up), Roberto Vittori (down) | 14-Oct-04 | 24-Apr-05 | 192d:19h:02m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-5 for TMA-4 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered & returned Expedition 10 crew (Chiao, Sharipov). |
| Soyuz TMA-6 (Russia) | Sergei Krikalyov, John Phillips, Roberto Vittori (up), Gregory Olsen (down) | 15-Apr-05 | 11-Oct-05 | 179d:00h:23m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-6 for TMA-5 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 11 crew (Krikalyov, Phillips). |
| STS-114, Discovery (USA) | Eileen Collins, James Kelly, Charles Camarda, Wendy Lawrence, Soichi Noguchi, Stephen Robinson, Andrew Thomas | 26-Jul-05 | 09-Aug-05 | 13d:21h:33m | ISS logistics flight LF-1, Raffaello MPLM, External Stowage Platform; test and evaluate new safety procedures; 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 20h:05m. |
| Soyuz TMA-7 (Russia) | Valeri Tokarev, William McArthur, Gregory Olsen (up), Macros Pontes (down) | 1-Oct-05 | 08-Apr-06 | 189d:19h:53m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-7 for TMA-6 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 12 crew (McArthur, Tokarev); Olsen 3rd space tourist. |
| Shenzhou 6 (China) | Fei Junlong, Nie Haishen | 12-Oct-05 | 16-Oct-05 | 4d:19h:32m | Second Chinese manned flight; first two man crew (76 orbits). |
| Soyuz TMA-8 (Russia) | Pavel Vinogradov, Jeffrey Williams, Macros Pontes (up), Anousheh Ansari (down) | 30-Mar-06 | 29-Sep-06 | 182d:22h:43m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-8 for TMA-7 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 13 crew (Vinogradov, Williams); Pontes first Brazilain in space. |
| STS-121, Discovery (USA) | Steve Lindsey, Mark Kelly, Mike Fossum, Lisa Nowak, Stephanie Wilson, Piers Sellers, Thomas Reiter (up) | 4-Jul-06 | 17-Jul-06 | 12d:18h:37m | ISS utilization & logistics flight ULF-1.1, Leonardo MPLM, performed ISS maintenance, delivered supplies & crewmember Reiter, tested new safety equipment & procedures; 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 21h:29m. |
| STS-115, Atlantis (USA) | Brent Jett, Christopher Ferguson, Joseph Tanner, Daniel Burbank, Steven MacLean, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper | 9-Sep-06 | 21-Sep-06 | 11d:19h:07m | ISS assembly flight 12A, installed the P3/P4 integrated truss and second set of solar arrays with rotary joint; 3 EVA for 4 crew totaling 20h:19m. |
| Soyuz TMA-9 (Russia) | Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria, Anousheh Ansari (up), Charles Simonyi (down) | 18-Sep-06 | 21-Apr-07 | 215d:08h:23m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-9 for TMA-8 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 14 crew (Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin). Ansari 4th space tourist (first female), first Iranian-American in space. |
| STS-116, Discovery (USA) | Mark Polansky, William Oefelein, Robert Curbeam, Joan Higginbotham, Nicholas Patrick, Christer Fuglesang, Sunita Williams (up), Thomas Reiter (down) | 9-Dec-06 | 22-Dec-06 | 12d:20h:45m | ISS assembly flight 12A.1, installed the P5 integrated truss, rewired ISS power system, Spacehab-SM, exchanged crewmembers Williams & Reiter; 4 EVA for 3 crew totaling 25h:45m, record 4 EVA in one mission by Curbeam; Fuglesang first Swede in space. |
| Soyuz TMA-10 (Russia) | Fyodor Yurchikhin, Oleg Kotov, Charles Simonyi (up), Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (down) | 7-Apr-07 | 21-Oct-07 | 196d:17h:05m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-10 for TMA-9 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 15 crew (Yurchikhin, Kotov); Simonyi 5th space tourist. |
| STS-117, Atlantis (USA) | Frederick Sturchow, Lee Archambault, Patrick Forrester, Steven Swanson, John Olivas, James Reilly, Clayton Anderson (up), Sunita Williams (down) | 8-Jun-07 | 22-Jun-07 | 13d:20h:12m | ISS assembly flight 13A, installed the S3/S4 integrated truss and third set of solar arrays with rotary joint, exchanged crewmembers Anderson & Williams; 4 EVA for 4 crew totaling 27h:58m. |
| STS-118, Endeavour (USA) | Scott Kelly, Charles Hobaugh, Tracy Caldwell, Richard Mastracchio, Dafydd Williams, Barbara Morgan, B. Alvin Drew | 8-Aug-07 | 21-Aug-07 | 12d:17h:56m | ISS assembly flight 13A.1, installed the S5 integrated truss, deployed ESP-3, replaced CMG-3; first use of station-to-shuttle power transfer system (SSPTS); 4 EVA for 2 crew + 1 ISS crew totaling 23h:15m. |
| Soyuz TMA-11 (Russia) | Yuri Malenchenko, Peggy Whitson, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor (up), Yi So-yeon (down) | 10-Oct-07 | 19-Apr-08 | 191d:19h:07m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-11 for TMA-10 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 16 crew (Whitson, Malenchenko). Shukor first Malaysian in space; Whitson first female ISS commander. |
| STS-120, Discovery (USA) | Pamela Melroy, George Zamka, Scott Parazynski, Stephanie Wilson, Douglas Wheelock, Paolo Nespoli, Daniel Tani (up), Clayton Anderson (down) | 23-Oct-07 | 7-Nov-07 | 15d:02h:24m | ISS assembly flight 10A, installed Harmony Node 2 module, relocated P6 integrated truss, exchanged crewmembers Tani & Anderson; 4 EVA for 3 crew totaling 27h:14m. |
| STS-122, Atlantis (USA) | Stephen Frick, Alan Poindexter, Leland Melvin, Rex Walheim, Hans Schlegel, Stanley Love, Leopold Eyharts (up), Daniel Tani (down) | 7-Feb-08 | 20-Feb-08 | 12d:18h:22m | ISS assembly flight 1E, delivered ESA's Columbus Laboratory, exchanged crewmembers Eyharts & Tani; 3 EVA for 3 crew totaling 22h:08m. |
| STS-123, Endeavour (USA) | Dominic Gorie, Gregory Johnson, Robert Behnken, Michael Foreman, Richard Linnehan, Takao Doi, Garrett Reisman (up), Leopold Eyharts (down) | 11-Mar-08 | 27-Mar-08 | 15d:18h:12m | ISS assembly flight 1J/A, delivered Japanese Kibo Logistics Module and Canadian Dextre Robotics System, first full utilization of SSPTS, exchanged crewmembers Reisman & Eyharts; 5 EVA for 4 crew totaling 33h:28m. |
| Soyuz TMA-12 (Russia) | Sergei Volkov, Oleg Kononenko, Yi So-yeon (up), Richard Garriott (down) | 8-Apr-08 | 24-Oct-08 | 198d:16h:20m | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-12 for TMA-11 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 17 crew (Volkov, Kononenko). Yi first Korean in space; Volkov first 2nd generation cosmonaut. |
| STS-124, Discovery (USA) | Mark Kelly, Kenneth Ham, Karen Nyberg, Ronald Garan, Michael Fossum, Akihiko Hoshide, Gregory Chamitoff (up), Garrett Reisman (down) | 31-May-08 | 14-Jun-08 | 13d:18h:13m | ISS assembly flight 1J, delivered Japanese Kibo Pressurized Module and Remote Manipulator System, exchanged crewmembers Chamitoff & Reisman; 3 EVA for 2 crew totaling 20h:32m. |
| Shenzhou 7 (China) | Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming, Jing Haipeng | 25-Sep-08 | 28-Sep-08 | 2d:20h:27m | First Chinese three man crew; first Chinese EVA by Zhai (20 min); released sub-satellite (40 kg). |
| Soyuz TMA-13 (Russia) | Yuri Lonchakov, Michael Fincke, Richard Garriott (up) | 12-Oct-08 | Planned
April-09 | TBD | Exchanged Soyuz TMA-13 for TMA-12 to serve ISS as emergency escape vehicle; delivered Expedition 18 crew (Fincke, Lonchakov). Tourist Garriott first 2nd generation American in space. |
| STS-126, Endeavour (USA) | Christopher Ferguson, Eric Boe, Donald Pettit, Stephen Bowen, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Robert Kimbrough, Sandra Magnus (up), Gregory Chamitoff (down) | 15-Nov-08 | 30-Nov-08 | 15d:20h:30m | ISS utilization & logistics flight ULF-2, Leonardo MPLM, delivered life support & habitability systems, performed ISS maintenance, exchanged crewmembers Magnus & Chamitoff; 4 EVA for 3 crew totaling 26h:41m. |
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