MIR International Missions

MIR 92
Vehicle	Soyuz TM-14
Mission	March 17 - 25, 1992
Launch site	Baikonur
Crew	Alexander Viktorenko Alexander Kaleri Klaus-Dietrich Flade

DLR performed all tasks of in orbit payload operations and for astronaut employment during the flight of a German astronaut on-board of the Russian MIR-Station in 1992:

• Recruitment and medical operations for the German astronauts
• Base line data collection
• Payload training for the German and Russian astronauts/cosmonauts
• Generation and verification of payload on-board procedures
• Generation of the cyclogrammes
• Performance of parallel ground experiments
• Mission assurance
• Support to the monitoring and control during flight operation in ZUP
• Recording of video and telemetry data

EUROMIR 94
Vehicle	Soyuz TM-20
Mission	Oct. 4 - Nov. 1, 1994
Launch site	Baikonur
Crew	Alexander Viktorenko Elena Kondakova Ulf Merbold

The first ESA mission on board the MIR station is carried out as a so called Columbus Precursor mission for preparing Experimenters and the Ground Segment for the Columbus era.

Under ESA contract DLR was responsible for:

• Procedure development support
• Crew training support
• Simulation support

EUROMIR 95
Vehicle	Soyuz TM-22
Mission	Sep. 3, 1995 - Feb. 29, 1996
Launch site	Baikonur
Crew	Yuri Gidzenko Sergei Avdeyev Thomas Reiter

The second ESA mission on board the MIR station is the first long-term mission (179 days and extravehicular activities of the European astronaut) with a variety of experiments in the fields of Microgravity, Technology and Space Science and improved data transfer to the Experimenters.

Under ESA contract DLR is responsible for:

• Procedure development support.
• Crew training support.

and for supporting operations activities from the EUROMIR 95 control centre (SCOPE) at GSOC Oberpfaffenhofen.

The operations support tasks are:

• Operations support management.
• Network definition.
• Network implementation.
• Operations support.
• Post operations assessment.

M I R  9 7
Vehicle	Soyuz TM-25
Mission	Feb. 10 - Mar. 2, 1997
Launch site	Baikonur
Crew	Vassily Tsibliyev Alexander Lazutkin Reinhold Ewald Backup: Hans Wilhelm Schlegel

Mir '97 is a German initiative funded by BMBF and managed by DARA and will be conducted in cooperation with the Russian Space Agency (RKA). A German astronaut will stay on board of the Mir space-station for 18 days.
The mission objectives are the continuation of science programs from previous MIR missions with German and/or European participation, reusing already available on-board experiments as well as new experiments, and to exercise interfaces, which will be essential for the future use in the international space station.
The experimental program includes topics in medical, biological and material sciences. In order to prepare for the operation of the international space station new methods for the remote controlling of in-orbit experiments and new approaches for astronaut on-board training and guidance will be practiced.
The tasks of the German Space Operation Center are:

• The support of DARA in the selection of a feasible experimental program
• The planning of the mission
• The preparation of the necessary on-board procedures
• The guidance and performance of the crew training with respect to the scientific program
• The coordination of all other DLR activities related to the MIR 97 program
• The actual conduct and control of the mission in close cooperation with the Russian Control Center ZUP
• The post flight evaluation of the mission

Thanks DLR for these informations