Spacewalks from Mir (1994 - 1996)

Spacewalks by the Mir Main EO-16 Crew
Soyuz TM-19 Launch: July 1, 1994 Soyuz TM-19 Docking: July 3, 1994
Soyuz TM-19 Undocking: November 4, 1994 Soyuz TM-19 Landing: November 4, 1994
Spacewalkers: Yuri Malenchenko (Mir EO-16 Crew) <> Talgat Musabayev (Mir EO-16 Crew)
Mir EO-16 Crew: CDR Yuri Malenchenko <> FE Talgat Musabayev
Mir EO-16 Spacewalk 1 Malenchenko and Musabayev inspected the docking port struck by Progress M-24, and repaired insulation torn by Soyuz TM-17.
September 9, 1994
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Start: 07:00 GMT
End: 12:06 GMT
Mir EO-16 Spacewalk 2 Malenchenko and Musabayev conducted routine maintenance, preparation work for moving Kristall's solar arrays to the Kvant module and inspected the Sofora truss.
September 13, 1994
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Start: 06:30 GMT
End: 12:32 GMT
Hosted Valeri Polyakov during his record-setting stay aboard Mir
Soyuz TM-18 Launch: January 8, 1994 Soyuz TM-18 Docking: January 10, 1994
Soyuz TM-20 Undocking: March 22, 1995 Soyuz TM-20 Landing: March 22, 1995
Mir EO-15/16/17 Crews: Valeri Polyakov (Up - Soyuz TM-18 / Down - Soyuz TM-20)

Spacewalks by the Mir Main EO-18 Crew
Soyuz TM-21 Launch: March 14, 1995 Soyuz TM-21 Docking: March 16, 1995
STS-71 Undocking: July 4, 1995 STS-71 Landing: July 7, 1995
Spacewalkers: Vladimir Dezhurov (Mir EO-18 Crew) <> Gennadi Strekalov (Mir EO-18 Crew)
Mir EO-18 Crew: CDR Vladimir Dezhurov <> FE Gennadi Strekalov <>
Researcher Norman Thagard (USA - NASA-1)
Mir EO-18 Spacewalk 1 Dezhurov and Strekalov prepared to move Kristall's solar arrays to the Kvant 1 module.
May 12, 1995
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes
Start: 04:20 GMT
End: 10:35 GMT
Mir EO-18 Spacewalk 2 Dezhurov and Strekalov transferred the first Kristall solar array to the Kvant 1 module.
May 17, 1995
Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
Start: 02:38 GMT
End: 09:20 GMT
Mir EO-18 Spacewalk 3 Dezhurov and Strekalov installed the first Kristall solar array on the Kvant 1 module, restoring Mir's electrical power. Kristall's second solar array was partially closed.
May 22, 1995
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Start: 00:10 GMT
End: 05:25 GMT
Mir EO-18 Spacewalk 4 Dezhurov and Strekalov transferred a docking adapter in the Mir base block for the transfer of the Kristall module.
May 28, 1995
Length: 21 minutes
Start: 22:22 GMT
End: 22:43 GMT
Mir EO-18 Spacewalk 5 Dezhurov and Strekalov transferred a docking adapter in the Mir base block for the transfer of the Spektr module to the lower lateral port of the Mir base block.
June 1, 1995
Length: 23 minutes
Start: 22:05 GMT
End: 22:28 GMT

Spacewalks by the Mir Main EO-19 Crew
STS-71 Launch: June 27, 1995 STS-71 Docking: June 29, 1995
Soyuz TM-21 Undocking: September 11, 1995 Soyuz TM-21 Landing: September 11, 1995
Spacewalkers: Anatoli Soloviyov <> Nikolai Budarin
Mir EO-19 Crew: CDR Anatoli Soloviyov <> FE Nikolai Budarin
Mir EO-19 Spacewalk 1 Soloviyov and Budarin inspected the port where the Kristall module was to be relocated for leaks and found nothing out of the ordinary. They used a NASA-built tool to deploy a balky Spektr solar panel, and inspected a solar array drive motor and antenna on the Kvant 2 module.
July 14, 1995
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes
Start: 03:56 GMT
End: 09:30 GMT
Mir EO-19 Spacewalk 2 Budarin retrieved the American TREK detector from Kvant 2's surface and prepared equipment for the installation of the MIRAS instrument on the next spacewalk. Soloviyov had to remain linked to the cooling system in the Kvant 2 airlock after his spacesuit's cooling system failed.
July 19, 1995
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Start: 00:39 GMT
End: 03:47 GMT
Mir EO-19 Spacewalk 3 Soloviyov and Budarin installed the MIRAS instrument on the exterior of the Spektr module.
July 21, 1995
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Start: 00:28 GMT
End: 06:18 GMT

Spacewalks by the Mir Main EO-20 Crew
Soyuz TM-22 Launch: September 3, 1995 Soyuz TM-22 Docking: September 5, 1995
Soyuz TM-22 Undocking: February 29, 1996 Soyuz TM-22 Landing: February 29, 1996
Spacewalkers: Yuri Gidzenko (Mir EO-20 Crew) <> Sergei Avdeyev (Mir EO-20 Crew) <>
Thomas Reiter (EUROMIR 95)
Mir EO-20 Crew: CDR Yuri Gidzenko <> FE Sergei Avdeyev <>
Researcher Thomas Reiter (Germany - EUROMIR 95)
Mir EO-20 Spacewalk 1 Avdeyev and Reiter installed experiments in the European Space Exposure Facility 1 (ESEF-1) on the Spektr module.
October 20, 1995
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Start: 11:50 GMT
End: 17:06 GMT
Mir EO-20 Spacewalk 2 Avdeyev and Gidzenko relocated a docking adapter for the docking of the Priroda module.
December 8, 1995
Length: 29 minutes
Start: 19:23 GMT
End: 19:52 GMT
Mir EO-20 Spacewalk 3 Gidzenko and Reiter retrieved dust collectors from the ESEF-1 instrument and repaired an antenna on one of the Kvant 2 module's solar arrays. This spacewalk was added when the Mir EO-20 mission was extended by 44 days.
February 8, 1996
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Start: 14:03 GMT
End: 17:08 GMT

Spacewalks by the Mir Main EO-21 Crew
Soyuz TM-23 Launch: February 21, 1996 Soyuz TM-23 Docking: February 23, 1996
Soyuz TM-23 Undocking: September 2, 1996 Soyuz TM-23 Landing: September 2, 1996
Spacewalkers: Yuri Onufriyenko (Mir EO-21 Crew) <> Yuri Usachyov (Mir EO-21 Crew)
Mir EO-21 Crew: CDR Yuri Onufriyenko <> FE Yuri Usachyov
Mir EO-21 Spacewalk 1 Onufriyenko and Usachyov installed a second Strela boom to the Mir base block.
March 15, 1996
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Start: 01:04 GMT
End: 06:55 GMT
Mir EO-21 Spacewalk 2 Onufriyenko and Usachyov transferred to the Mir Cooperative Solar Array (MCSA) from the Docking Module to the installation site on the Kvant 1 module, and began installation work.
May 20 - 21, 1996
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Start: 22:50 GMT (May 20)
End: 04:10 GMT (May 21)
Mir EO-21 Spacewalk 3 Onufriyenko and Usachyov installed and deployed the MCSA on the Kvant 1 module. However, the cables used permitted power to be supplied from half of the solar array.
May 24 - 25, 1996
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Start: 20:47 GMT (May 24)
End: 02:30 GMT (May 25)
Mir EO-21 Spacewalk 4 Onufriyenko and Usachyov installed the American Modular Optoelectrical Multispectral Scanner instrument outside the Priroda module.
May 30, 1996
Length: 4 hours 20 minutes
Start: 18:20 GMT
End: 22:40 GMT
Mir EO-21 Spacewalk 5 Onufriyenko and Usachyov installed sample cassettes and micrometeoroid detectors.
June 6, 1996
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Start: 16:56 GMT
End: 20:30 GMT
Mir EO-21 Spacewalk 6 Onufriyenko and Usachyov installed the Ferma-3 (Rapana) truss on the Kvant 1 module's underside, and manually deployed the Travers Synthetic Aperture Radar antenna.
June 13, 1996
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Start: 12:45 GMT
End: 18:27 GMT
Hosted the NASA-2 Researcher
NASA-2 Launch: March 22, 1996 NASA-2 Docking: March 24, 1996
NASA-2 Undocking: September 24, 1996 NASA-2 Landing: September 26, 1996
NASA-2 Researcher: Shannon Lucid (USA) (Up - STS-76 / Down - STS-79)

Spacewalks by the Mir Main EO-22 Crew
Soyuz TM-24 Launch: August 17, 1996 Soyuz TM-24 Docking: August 19, 1996
Soyuz TM-24 Undocking: March 2, 1997 Soyuz TM-24 Landing: March 2, 1997
Spacewalkers: Valeri Korzun (Mir EO-22 Crew) <> Aleksandr Kaleri (Mir EO-22 Crew)
Mir EO-22 Crew: CDR Valeri Korzun <> FE Aleksandr Kaleri
Spacewalk 1 Korzun and Kaleri installed a new cable to double the power supplied by the Mir Cooperative Solar Array, and relocated the Rapana truss to the top of the Ferma-3 truss.
December 2, 1996
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Start: 15:54 GMT
End: 21:52 GMT
Spacewalk 2 Korzun and Kaleri installed a new omnidirectional Kurs antenna on the Docking Module.
December 9, 1996
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Start: 13:50 GMT
End: 20:28 GMT
Hosted the Cassiopée Mission
Cassiopée Launch: August 17, 1996 Cassiopée Docking: August 19, 1996
Cassiopée Undocking: September 2, 1996 Cassiopée Landing: September 9, 1996
Cassiopée Mission: Claudie André-Deshays (France) (Down - Soyuz TM-23)
Hosted the NASA-3 Researcher
NASA-3 Launch: September 16, 1996 NASA-3 Docking: September 19, 1996
NASA-3 Undocking: January 20, 1997 NASA-3 Landing: January 22, 1997
NASA-3 Researcher: John Blaha (USA) (Up - STS-79 / Down - STS-81)
Hosted the NASA-4 Researcher
NASA-4 Launch: January 12, 1997 NASA-4 Docking: January 15, 1997
NASA-4 Undocking: May 22, 1997 NASA-4 Landing: May 24, 1997
NASA-4 Researcher: Jerry Linenger (USA) (Up - STS-81 / Down - STS-84)

Key
CDR Commander
FE Flight Engineer

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Updated - December 12, 2008