Linking the Space Shuttle and Space Stations by David J. Shayler

Author:David J. Shayler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

BY THE NUMBERS

The statistics for crewing and flight assignments for space stations were (in part) as follows.

Shuttle-Mir

During the period of Shuttle operations at Mir, including STS-63 (but not STS-60 ), a total of fifty-five flight seats were occupied by forty-seven Shuttle crewmembers, with a further eleven seats occupied by resident Mir crewmembers: two embarking Mir-19 cosmonauts, three returning Mir-18 cosmonauts including Norm Thagard, and another six NASA astronauts, namely Shannon Lucid, John Blaha, Jerry Linenger, Mike Foale (who had also been on the STS-63 ‘Near-Mir’ crew), David Wolf and Andy Thomas.

The Shuttle Orbiter crews included four Russian cosmonauts: Vladimir Titov (who flew on the ‘Near-Mir’ mission and a docking mission), Yelena Kondakova , Salizhan Sharipov , and Valeri Ryumin . There were also representatives of other space agencies: Chris Hadfield (CSA ), J-F. Clervoy (ESA ) and J-L. Chrétien (CNES).

Of the forty-seven people (thirty-eight male, nine female) who flew as Orbiter crew on missions related to Shuttle-Mir, forty were American (including eight female), four Russian (one female), one Canadian and two French. Seven astronauts (including three females) flew on two missions, and one flew three missions to Mir. Of the group, only Foale flew on a Shuttle-Mir crew (STS-63 ) prior to being assigned a residency aboard the station. This was due in part to the lengthy training process, primarily in Russia , to qualify for inclusion in a long-duration Mir resident crew.

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