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Michael Foale
Colin Michael Foale, CBE, PhD, (born 6 January 1957) is an Anglo-American astrophysicist and a NASA astronaut. He is a veteran of six space shuttle missions and extended stays on both Mir and the International Space Station. He was the first Briton to perform a space walk, and until 17 April 2008,...
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Mir
Mir (Russian: Мир; lit. Peace or World) was a Soviet and later Russian space station. It was the world's first consistently inhabited long-term research station in space, and the first of the third generation type of space station, constructed from...
Soyuz TMA-3
Soyuz TMA-3 was a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched by a Soyuz FG launch vehicle.
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Soyuz TMA-3 (Russian Союз ТМА-3, Union TMA-3) was a...
STS-45
STS-45 was a 1992 spaceflight using Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Launch: March 24, 1992, 8:13 a.m. EST. Launch originally scheduled for March 23, but was delayed one day because of higher-than-allowable concentrations of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen...
Duration:
- 9 days (Mar 24, 1992 — Apr 2, 1992)
STS-56
STS-56 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission to perform special experiments. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on April 8, 1993.
The primary payload of the flight was the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-2 ...
Duration:
- 9 days (Apr 8, 1993 — Apr 17, 1993)
STS-63
STS-63 was the second mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried out the first rendezvous of the American Space Shuttle with Russia's space station Mir. Known as the 'Near-Mir' mission, the flight used Space Shuttle Discovery,...
Duration:
- 8 days (Feb 3, 1995 — Feb 11, 1995)
STS-84
STS-84 was a manned spaceflight mission by Space Shuttle Atlantis to the Mir space station.
The STS-84 mission was the sixth Shuttle/Mir docking mission and is part of the NASA/Mir program which consisted of nine Shuttle-Mir dockings and seven long...
Duration:
- 9 days (May 15, 1997 — May 24, 1997)
STS-86
STS-86 was a Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station. This was the last Atlantis mission before it was taken out of service temporarily for maintenance and upgrades, including the glass cockpit.
Wendy B. Lawrence was scheduled to...
Duration:
- 11 days (Sep 25, 1997 — Oct 6, 1997)
STS-103
STS-103 was a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission by Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on December 19, 1999.
The primary objective of STS-103 was the Hubble Servicing Mission 3A. STS-103 had four...
Duration:
- 8 days (Dec 19, 1999 — Dec 27, 1999)
Expedition 8
Expedition 8 was the eighth expedition to the International Space Station.
Expedition 8 Commander and NASA Station Science Officer Michael Foale, Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri and ESA Astronaut Pedro Duque docked the Soyuz TMA-3 with the...
Duration:
- Oct 18, 2003 —
