Expedition EO-1

Crew & mission data: No.: 1 2 Exp.crew:  Kizim, Leonid  Soloviyov, Vladimir Job:  CDR  Flight Engineer Launch vehicle:  Soyuz T-15  Soyuz T-15 Docking date/time:  15 Mar 1986 - 13:38:42  15 Mar 1986 - 13:38:42 Undocking date/time:  16 Jul 1986 - 09:09:50  16 Jul 1986 - 09:09:50 Landing vehicle:  Soyuz T-15  Soyuz T-15 MIR-mission duration:  125d 00h 01m?  125d 00h 01m? Orbits:  1980?  1980?

EVA data: EVAs  Date  Duration  Cosmonauts  Remarks EVA-1  28 May 1986  3h 50m  Kizim, Solovyov  from Salyut 7 EVA-2  31 May 1986  5h 00m  Kizim, Solovyov  from Salyut 7

Mission details:

• Mir Expedition EO-01.
• Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz T-15 docked with the new space station MIR on 15.03.1986. The cosmonauts became the first resident crew of MIR.
• The first work was to make the station working and to unload the two Progress 25 and 26 freighters, launched after their arrival.
• On 05 May 1986, they undocked from MIR for a day long journey to the Salyut 7 space station and stayed there for 50 days as sixth resident crew. After done work returning to MIR on 26 June 1986. It was the first transfer from one space station to an other space station in space history.
• When back on MIR Kizim and Soloviyov installed there some systems taken from Salyut and they performed some scientific experiments. One of these experiments was GEOEX 8, in which some areas of the German Democratic Republic were explored by an airplane, a satellite and from space. This was useful for agriculture, geology and environmental protection.
• Kizim and Soloviyov performed two EVA's while staying on Salyut 7 on 28 May 1986 (3h 50m) and 31 May 1986 (5h 00m), repairing heat, power and environmental control systems.
• Before returning back to Earth the crew put the MIR into an automatic working modus.