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