The 15th main crew`s mission (HM-15) on the space station MIR lasted from the 8 January 1994 to 9 July 1994 (a total of 182 days). The crew existed of the commandant (KO) of the crew, cosmonaut Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasiyev, the boarding engineer (BI), cosmonaut Yuri Vladimirovich Usachev, and the scientific cosmonaut, a doctor, Dr. Valeri Vladimirovich Poljakov.
Flight program
| Date (DD.MM.YYYY) |
Activity |
|---|---|
| 08.01.1994 | Launch of the space transporter Soyuz TM-18 into the orbit |
| 10.01.1994 | Docking of the space transporter Soyuz TM-18 on the space station |
| 10.01.1994 – 14.01.1994 | Common working with the HM-14 |
| 21.01.1994 | Undocking of the space transporter Soyuz TM-18 from the docking module QUANT and docking on the docking gear of the basis modul`s transit sector |
| 30.01.1994 – 23.03.1994 | Working with the cargo transporter Progress M-21 |
| 24.03.1994 – 23.05.1994 | Working with the cargo transporter Progress M-22 |
| from 24.05.1994 | Working with the cargo transporter Progress M-23 |
| 03.07.1994 – 09.07.1994 | Common working with the HM-16 |
| 09.07.1994 | Return from orbit and landing of the re-entry capsule of the space transporter Soyuz TM-18 with the cosmonauts Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasiyev and Yuri Vladimirovich Usachev. |