Soyuz TM-30
Success
APR 04200005:01:00 UTCThe 28th and final resident crew sent to Mir, and the first crewed mission funded commercially: Sergey Zalyotin and Aleksandr Kaleri flew up under MirCorp's effort to lease and refurbish the aging station. They spent two months aboard, but the funding to keep Mir alive never materialized, and the station was deorbited the following spring.
LIFTOFF
APR 04 200005:01:00 UTC
Success
launched from Pad 1/5 Baikonur
aboard Soyuz U into LEO
Payload
Soyuz TM-30
Space station crew
Crew
Ascending
- 01 Sergey Zalyotin from Russia
- 02 Aleksandr Kaleri from Russia
Descending
- 01 Sergey Zalyotin from Russia
- 02 Aleksandr Kaleri from Russia
At the station
docked at Mir
returned to Earth Jun 16, 2000