Euromir 94
Euromir 94 was ESA's first mission to Russia's Mir space station and Ulf Merbold's third spaceflight. Merbold launched from Baikonur on Soyuz TM-20 with Aleksandr Viktorenko and Yelena Kondakova on October 3, 1994 UTC, docked with Mir on October 6, and spent about a month aboard the station as a research cosmonaut. The mission concentrated on European life-science, materials-science, and technology investigations while giving ESA teams operational experience with Russian spacecraft, Star City training, Mir payload support, and long-duration station work ahead of Columbus and International Space Station cooperation. Merbold returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-19 with Yuri Malenchenko and Talgat Musabayev on November 4, 1994.
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- Euromir '94EuroMir 94Soyuz TM-20Soyuz TM-19Soyuz TM-20/TM-19
- Name
- Euromir 94
- Status
- completed
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- Description
- Euromir 94 was ESA's first mission to Russia's Mir space station and Ulf Merbold's third spaceflight. Merbold launched from Baikonur on Soyuz TM-20 with Aleksandr Viktorenko and Yelena Kondakova on October 3, 1994 UTC, docked with Mir on October 6, and spent about a month aboard the station as a research cosmonaut. The mission concentrated on European life-science, materials-science, and technology investigations while giving ESA teams operational experience with Russian spacecraft, Star City training, Mir payload support, and long-duration station work ahead of Columbus and International Space Station cooperation. Merbold returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-19 with Yuri Malenchenko and Talgat Musabayev on November 4, 1994.
- End Date
- 1994-11-04
- Launch Site
- Outcome
- Completed. ESA's first Mir mission launched Ulf Merbold on Soyuz TM-20, supported a month-long European experiment program aboard Mir, and returned him on Soyuz TM-19 after demonstrating practical ESA-Russian station operations.
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- Start Date
- 1994-10-03
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- July 7, 2026 at 09:09:25 UTC
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- July 31, 2026 at 04:44:48 UTC
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