| Name: Poleshchuk, Aleksandr | Country: Russia | M/F: M | Number of Flights: 1 |
| Space Flights | Launch Date - Flight Up | Landing Date - Flight Down |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Soyuz TM-16 | January 24, 1993 - Soyuz TM-16 | July 22, 1993 - Soyuz TM-16 |
| Space Flights | Descriptions |
|---|---|
| Soyuz TM-14A (Cancelled) |
Original Prime Crew assigned to Soyuz TM-14 Soyuz TM-13 and Soyuz TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement. |
| Soyuz TM-15 (Backup Crew) |
Mir Main Expedition EO-12 Crew |
| 1. Soyuz TM-16 | Mir Main Expedition EO-13 Crew Docked with Mir from January 26, 1993 to July 22, 1993 |
| Mir EO-18 Crew (2nd Backup Crew) |
Mir Main Expedition EO-18 Crew (Shuttle-Mir Docking Mission 1) |
| ISS Crew 9A (Cancelled) |
ISS "Alpha" Expedition Backup Crew 9A Following the loss of Columbia, the original crew was replaced by the two person "caretaker" crew of Michael Fincke and Gennadi Padalka. |
| Spacewalks - 2 | ||
| Space Flights | Date & Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Soyuz TM-16 | April 19, 1993 | Use Strela boom to move cosmonauts and solar array drive motor to worksite on Kvant-1. Install first array drive for Kristall arrays on Kvant-1 |
| 5 hours 25 minutes | ||
| Soyuz TM-16 | June 18, 1993 | Repair Strela boom. Install second solar array drive on Kvant-1 |
| 4 hours 33 minutes | ||
| Return to Master List | Russian Cosmonauts | Spacewalkers |
| One Spaceflight | Mir Program - 1993 / Backup Crew | |
Updated - March 26, 2006