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NASA Shuttle MIR Program Embroidered Patch

Embroidered Patch for the joint NASA Shuttle MIR Program

Full colour patch approx. 4" diameter.

A Quick Overview and Timeline of Shuttle-Mir

Shuttle-Mir encompassed 11 space shuttle flights and 7 astronaut residencies on the Russian space station Mir.

1994
February 3 - 11	STS-60: First Cosmonaut on the Shuttle Sergei K. Krikalev was the first Cosmonaut to fly aboard the Shuttle.
1995
February 3 - 11	STS-63: First Rendezvous with Mir With Cosmonaut Vladimir Titov aboard, Discovery rendezvoused with Mir, closed to within 37 feet, and performed a fly-around, but did not dock.
March 14 - July 7	Thagard Increment: First Astronaut on Mir Astronaut Norman Thagard launched with Cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov aboard a Russian Soyuz to spend 115 days on Mir.
June 27 - July 7	STS-71: First Docking Atlantis performed the first shuttle docking with Mir; delivered a replacement crew -- cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin -- and returned Dezhurov, Strekalov, and Thagard to Earth.
November 12 - 20	STS-74: A New Docking Module The first shuttle assembly flight to Mir, it carried a Russian-built, U.S.-funded docking module with two attached solar arrays.
1996
March 22 - 31	STS-76: Starting a Continuous U.S. Presence This mission carried Shannon Lucid to Mir, demonstrated logistics capabilities with a Spacehab module, and placed experiment packages on Mir's docking module during a spacewalk.
March 22 - August 26	Lucid Increment: One for the Records Shannon Lucid began the continuous U.S. presence on Mir and set a U.S. single spaceflight record of 188 days. The Priroda module, with about 2,200 pounds of U.S. science hardware, was docked to Mir.
August 16 - 26	STS-79: Blaha Succeeds Lucid This mission included a double Spacehab module. It brought Lucid home and replaced her with John Blaha.
August 16 January 22, 1997	Blaha Increment: Keeping it Going Blaha spent four months with the Mir-22 Cosmonaut crew conducting material science, fluid science, and life science research.
1997
January 12 - 22	STS-81: Linenger Succeeds Blaha On this mission, Jerry Linenger replaced Blaha.
January 12 - May 24	Linenger Increment: A Spacewalk and a Fire Linenger conducted the first spacewalk by a U.S. astronaut wearing a Russian spacesuit, and experienced the onboard fire in February.
May 15 - 24	STS-84: Foale Succeeds Linenger This mission carried up Linenger's replacement Mike Foale, along with Russian mission specialist Elena V. Kondakova.
May 15 - September 25	Foale Increment: Collision and Recovery Foale experienced the collision with the Progress, which damaged the Spektr module and caused the loss of some science experiments. A remarkable salvage and replanning effort by Foale and the science community maximized the scientific return. Foale conducted a spacewalk with Anatoly Solovyev to survey damage to the Spektr module.
September 25 - October 6	STS-86: Wolf Succeeds Foale David Wolf boarded Mir with this mission replacing, Foale. Astronaut Scott Parazynski and cosmonaut Vladimir Titov conducted a joint spacewalk, the first in which a Russian wore a U.S. spacesuit.
September 25 - Jan. 31, 1998	Wolf Increment: Back Toward Normal Wolf conducted a spacewalk in January with cosmonaut Solovyev to conduct scientific experiments.
1998
January 22 - 31	STS-89: Thomas Succeeds Wolf This mission replaced Wolf with Andy Thomas. The flight also carried cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov to Mir.
January 22 - June 12	Thomas Increment: Smoothest Sailing Thomas studied meteorology, ocean biochemistry, and human adaptation to microgravity.
June 2 - 12	STS-91: Closing Out Shuttle-Mir This mission picked up Thomas and conducted scientific investigations. Phase 1 came to a close.

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