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| Buran Analogue Flight 2 |
January 3, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (7th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 520 kph Altitude: 3000 m |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (7th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 36 minutes |
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| STS-61C | January 12, 1986 (11:55 GMT) |
January 18, 1986 (13:58 GMT) |
Commander: Robert Gibson (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Perigee: 327 km Apogee: 350 km Inclination: 28.5° 98 orbits |
| Pilot: Charles Bolden (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: George Nelson (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Steven Hawley (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Franklin Chang-Diaz (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) (7th Mission) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
18th landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California (Runway 22) |
Payload Specialist 1: Congressman Bill Nelson (1st Flight) (Congress Observer) |
USA | M | Time 6 days 2 hours 3 minutes |
| Payload Specialist 2: Robert Cenker (1st Flight) (RCA Astro Electronics) |
USA | M | ||||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Gerard Magilton | USA | M | ||||
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| STS-51L | January 28, 1986 (16:38 GMT) |
Commander: Francis Scobee (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | Altitude: 14 km | |
| Pilot: Michael Smith (1st Flight) (NASA Group 9) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 1: Ellison Onizuka (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Mission Specialist 2: Judith Resnik (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | F | ||||
| Mission Specialist 3: Ronald McNair (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 8) |
USA | M | ||||
| Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) (10th and Final Mission) |
Launch Pad 39B Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
Payload Specialist 1: Gregory Jarvis (1st Flight) (Hughes Communications) |
USA | M | The crew cabin crashed into the Atlantic Ocean 207 seconds after liftoff. | |
| Payload Specialist 2: Sharon Christa McAuliffe (1st Flight) (Teacher in Space) |
USA | F | ||||
| The crew and shuttle were lost 73 seconds after liftoff. | Backup Payload Specialist 1: Louis Butterworth | USA | M | |||
| Backup Payload Specialist 2: Barbara Morgan | USA | F | ||||
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| Mir Core Module (17KS #127-01) |
February 20, 1986 (21:28 GMT) |
March 23, 2001 (05:59 GMT) |
Mir Core Module (DOS 7 space station) |
USSR | Perigee: 178 km Apogee: 319 km Inclination: 51.6° 86,330 orbits |
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| Launch Vehicle Proton-K #337-01 |
Site-200L (Launch Pad 39) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Time 5,510 days 8 hours |
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| Soyuz T-15 (7K-ST #21L) |
March 13, 1986 (12:33 GMT) |
July 16, 1986 (12:34 GMT) |
Commander: Leonid Kizim (3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 3) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 331 km Apogee: 366 km Inclination: 51.6° 1,980 orbits 2 spacewalks |
| Flight Engineer: Vladimir Soloviyov (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 4) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
55 km NE of Arkalyk (51° N, 68° E) |
1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Viktorenko | USSR | M | ||
| Docked with Mir March 15, 1986 (13:38 GMT) |
Transfer to Salyut 7 May 5, 1986 (12:12 GMT) |
1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov | USSR | M | ||
| Docked with Salyut 7 May 6, 1986 (16:57 GMT) |
Transfer back to Mir June 25, 1986 (14:58 GM) |
2nd Backup Crew: Anatoli Soloviyov | USSR | M | Time 125 days 0 hours |
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| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 #012 |
Docked with Mir June 26, 1986 (19:46 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir July 16, 1986 (09:09 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Aleksandr Serebrov | USSR | M | |
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 6 |
April 26, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (1st Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 14 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (1st Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 3 |
May 27, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (8th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 540 kph Altitude: 4000 m |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (8th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 23 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Flight 4 |
June 11, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (9th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Speed: 530 kph Altitude: 4000 m |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (9th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 22 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Flight 5 |
June 20, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (2nd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 25 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (2nd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 6 |
June 28, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (3rd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 23 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (3rd Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 7 |
December 10, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (10th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Automatic Landing Altitude: 4000 m |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (10th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 24 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Flight 8 |
December 23, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (11th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Altitude: 4000 m | |
| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (11th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 17 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Flight 9 |
December 29, 1986 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (4th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 17 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (4th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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