CANCEL
Soyuz TM-12
Launch Date
May 18, 1991
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
3
Soyuz TM-12
Launch Date
May 18, 1991
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
3
Overview
Soyuz TM-12 ferried the EO-9 long duration crew to Space Station Mir and took the first Briton to space. This mission has the unique distinction of being one of two flights in which a crew member launched as one nationality and returned to Earth as another; the Soviet Union ceased to exist while Krikalev was on Mir. He launched on this mission as a Soviet citizen and landed with Soyuz TM-13 as a Russian.
Crafts
Soyuz
Soyuz is a human carrier capsule built and operated by Russia that can take up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded many times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crew vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.
