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Crewed spaceflights during the 1990s are listed chronologically in the table.
| mission | country | crew | dates | notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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STS-32 (Columbia) | U.S. | Daniel Brandenstein | Jan. 9–20, 1990 | brought back Long Duration Exposure Facility launched in 1984 |
| James Wetherbee | |||||
| Bonnie Dunbar | |||||
| Marsha Ivins | |||||
| David Low | |||||
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Soyuz TM-9/Mir | U.S.S.R. | Anatoly Solovyov | Feb. 11–Aug. 9, 1990 | addition of Kristall module to Mir |
| Aleksandr Balandin | |||||
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STS-36 (Atlantis) | U.S. | John Creighton | Feb. 28–March 4, 1990 | launched classified satellite for U.S. Department of Defense that broke up and reentered atmosphere |
| John Casper | |||||
| Mike Mullane | |||||
| David Hilmers | |||||
| Pierre Thuot | |||||
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STS-31 (Discovery) | U.S. | Loren Shriver | April 24–29, 1990 | deployed Hubble Space Telescope |
| Charles Bolden | |||||
| Steven Hawley | |||||
| Kathryn Sullivan | |||||
| Bruce McCandless | |||||
| Soyuz TM-10/Mir | U.S.S.R. | Gennady Manakov | Aug. 1–Dec. 10, 1990 | crew performed space walk to fix damaged hatch on Kvant 2 | |
| Gennady Strekalov | |||||
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STS-41 (Discovery) | U.S. | Richard Richards | Oct. 6–10, 1990 | launched Ulysses |
| Robert Cabana | |||||
| Bruce Melnick | |||||
| William Shepherd | |||||
| Thomas Akers | |||||
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STS-38 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Richard Covey | Nov. 15–20, 1990 | launched classified satellite for U.S. Department of Defense |
| Frank Culbertson | |||||
| Carl Meade | |||||
| Robert Springer | |||||
| Charles Gemar | |||||
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STS-35 (Columbia) | U.S. | Vance Brand | Dec. 2–10, 1990 | carried Astro-1 instrument containing four separate telescopes |
| Guy Gardner | |||||
| Jeffrey Hoffman | |||||
| John Lounge | |||||
| Robert Parker | |||||
| Ronald Parise | |||||
| Samuel Durrance | |||||
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Soyuz TM-11/Mir | U.S.S.R. | Viktor Afanasiyev | Dec. 2, 1990–May 26, 1991 (Dec. 10, 1990 [Akiyama]) | first Japanese citizen in space (Akiyama) |
| Musa Manarov | |||||
| Akiyama Toyohiro | |||||
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STS-37 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Steven Nagel | April 5–11, 1991 | deployed Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
| Kenneth Cameron | |||||
| Linda Godwin | |||||
| Jerry Ross | |||||
| Jerome Apt | |||||
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STS-39 (Discovery) | U.S. | Michael Coats | April 28–May 6, 1991 | launched and recovered SPAS-2 satellite for observations of shuttle exterior |
| Lloyd Hammond | |||||
| Gregory Harbaugh | |||||
| Donald McMonagle | |||||
| Guion Bluford | |||||
| Charles Veach | |||||
| Richard Hieb | |||||
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Soyuz TM-12/Mir | U.S.S.R. | Anatoly Artsebarsky | May 18–Oct. 10, 1991 (March 25, 1992 [Krikalyov]; May 26, 1991 [Sharman]) | first British astronaut (Sharman) |
| Sergey Krikalyov | |||||
| Helen Sharman | |||||
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STS-40 (Columbia) | U.S. | Bryan O'Connor | June 5–14, 1991 | conducted life science experiments on humans, rats, and jellyfish |
| Sidney Gutierrez | |||||
| James Bagian | |||||
| Tamara Jernigan | |||||
| Rhea Seddon | |||||
| Francis Gaffney | |||||
| Millie Hughes-Fulford | |||||
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STS-43 (Atlantis) | U.S. | John Blaha | Aug. 2–11, 1991 | launched Tracking and Data Relay Satellite |
| Michael Baker | |||||
| Shannon Lucid | |||||
| George Low | |||||
| James Adamson | |||||
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STS-48 (Discovery) | U.S. | John Creighton | Sept. 12–18, 1991 | launched Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| Kenneth Reightler | |||||
| Charles Gemar | |||||
| James Buchli | |||||
| Mark Brown | |||||
| Soyuz TM-13/Mir | U.S.S.R. | Aleksandr Volkov | Oct. 2, 1991–March 25, 1992 (Oct. 10, 1991 [Aubakirov, Viehböck]) | first Austrian astronaut (Viehböck) | |
| Toktar Aubakirov | |||||
| Franz Viehböck | |||||
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STS-44 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Frederick Gregory | Nov. 24–Dec. 1, 1991 | launched spy satellite |
| Terence Henricks | |||||
| James Voss | |||||
| Story Musgrave | |||||
| Mario Runco | |||||
| Thomas Hennen | |||||
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STS-42 (Discovery) | U.S. | Ronald Grabe | Jan. 22–30, 1992 | first Canadian woman in space (Bondar) |
| Stephen Oswald | |||||
| Norman Thagard | |||||
| William Readdy | |||||
| David Hilmers | |||||
| Roberta Bondar | |||||
| Ulf Merbold | |||||
| Soyuz TM-14/Mir | Russia | Aleksandr Viktorenko | March 17–Aug. 10, 1992 (March 25 [Flade]) | first Russian spaceflight after breakup of the U.S.S.R. | |
| Aleksandr Kalery | |||||
| Klaus-Dietrich Flade | |||||
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STS-45 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Charles Bolden | March 24–April 2, 1992 | first Belgian astronaut (Frimout) |
| Brian Duffy | |||||
| Kathryn Sullivan | |||||
| David Leetsma | |||||
| Michael Foale | |||||
| Dirk Frimout | |||||
| Byron Lichtenberg | |||||
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STS-49 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Daniel Brandenstein | May 7–16, 1992 | rescued Intelsat 6 satellite; first time three astronauts walked in space simultaneously (Akers, Thuot, and Hieb) |
| Kevin Chilton | |||||
| Richard Hieb | |||||
| Bruce Melnick | |||||
| Pierre Thuot | |||||
| Kathryn Thornton | |||||
| Thomas Akers | |||||
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STS-50 (Columbia) | U.S. | Richard Richards | June 25–July 9, 1992 | carried U.S. Microgravity Laboratory-1 |
| Kenneth Bowersox | |||||
| Bonnie Dunbar | |||||
| Ellen Baker | |||||
| Carl Meade | |||||
| Lawrence DeLucas | |||||
| Eugene Trinh | |||||
| Soyuz TM-15/Mir | Russia | Anatoly Solovyov | July 27, 1992–Feb. 1, 1993 (Aug. 10, 1992 [Tognini]) | crew performed space walks to extend lifetime of Mir | |
| Sergey Avdeyev | |||||
| Michel Tognini | |||||
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STS-46 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Loren Shriver | July 31–Aug. 8, 1992 | first Swiss astronaut (Nicollier); first Italian astronaut (Malerba) |
| Andrew Allen | |||||
| Claude Nicollier | |||||
| Marsha Ivins | |||||
| Jeffrey Hoffman | |||||
| Franklin Chang-Díaz | |||||
| Franco Malerba | |||||
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STS-47 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Robert Gibson | Sept. 12–20, 1992 | first African American woman in space (Jemison); first Japanese astronaut in space (Mohri) |
| Curtis Brown | |||||
| Mark Lee | |||||
| N. Jan Davis | |||||
| Jay Apt | |||||
| Mae Jemison | |||||
| Mohri Mamoru | |||||
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STS-52 (Columbia) | U.S. | James Wetherbee | Oct. 22–Nov. 1, 1992 | launched second Laser Geodynamics Satellite (LAGEOS II) |
| Michael Baker | |||||
| Charles Veach | |||||
| William Shepherd | |||||
| Tamara Jernigan | |||||
| Steven MacLean | |||||
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STS-53 (Discovery) | U.S. | David Walker | Dec. 2–9, 1992 | deployed large spy satellite |
| Robert Cabana | |||||
| Guion Bluford | |||||
| Michael Clifford | |||||
| James Voss | |||||
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STS-54 (Endeavour) | U.S. | John Casper | Jan. 13–19, 1993 | deployed the sixth Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS 6) |
| Donald McMonagle | |||||
| Mario Runco | |||||
| Gregory Harbaugh | |||||
| Susan Helms | |||||
| Soyuz TM-16/Mir | Russia | Gennady Manakov | Jan. 24–July 22, 1993 | placed docking target on Mir for use by space shuttle Atlantis | |
| Aleksandr Poleshchuk | |||||
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STS-56 (Discovery) | U.S. | Kenneth Cameron | April 8–17, 1993 | carried the second Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-2) to monitor yearly changes in Earth's middle atmosphere; first Hispanic American woman in space (Ochoa) |
| Stephen Oswald | |||||
| Michael Foale | |||||
| Kenneth Cockerell | |||||
| Ellen Ochoa | |||||
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STS-55 (Columbia) | U.S. | Steven Nagel | April 26–May 6, 1993 | carried Spacelab D-2 |
| Terence Henricks | |||||
| Jerry Ross | |||||
| Charles Precourt | |||||
| Bernard Harris | |||||
| Ulrich Walter | |||||
| Hans Schlegel | |||||
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STS-57 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Ronald Grabe | June 21–July 1, 1993 | carried Spacehab laboratory |
| Brian Duffy | |||||
| George Low | |||||
| Nancy Sherlock | |||||
| Peter Wisoff | |||||
| Janice Voss | |||||
| Soyuz TM-17/Mir | Russia | Vasily Tsibliyev | July 1, 1993–Jan. 14, 1994 (July 22, 1993 [Haigneré]) | slight collision with Mir | |
| Aleksandr Serebrov | |||||
| Jean-Pierre Haigneré | |||||
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STS-51 (Discovery) | U.S. | Frank Culbertson | Sept. 12–22, 1993 | deployed two satellites |
| William Readdy | |||||
| James Newman | |||||
| Daniel Bursch | |||||
| Carl Walz | |||||
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STS-58 (Columbia) | U.S. | John Blaha | Oct. 18–Nov. 1, 1993 | crew performed life science experiments; first veterinarian in space (Fettman) |
| Richard Searfoss | |||||
| Rhea Seddon | |||||
| William McArthur | |||||
| David Wolf | |||||
| Shannon Lucid | |||||
| Martin Fettman | |||||
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STS-61 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Richard Covey | Dec. 2–13, 1993 | repaired Hubble Space Telescope |
| Kenneth Bowersox | |||||
| Kathryn Thornton | |||||
| Claude Nicollier | |||||
| Jeffrey Hoffman | |||||
| Story Musgrave | |||||
| Thomas Akers | |||||
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Soyuz TM-18/Mir | Russia | Viktor Afanasiyev | Jan. 8–July 9, 1994 (March 22, 1995 [Polyakov]) | new space endurance record (Polyakov; 437 days 18 hours) |
| Yury Usachyov | |||||
| Valery Polyakov | |||||
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STS-60 (Discovery) | U.S. | Charles Bolden | Feb. 3–11, 1994 | carried Wake Shield Facility and Spacehab-2; first Russian on U.S. spacecraft (Krikalyov) |
| Kenneth Reightler | |||||
| N. Jan Davis | |||||
| Ronald Sega | |||||
| Franklin Chang-Díaz | |||||
| Sergey Krikalyov | |||||
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STS-62 (Columbia) | U.S. | John Casper | March 4–18, 1994 | crew performed material science experiments |
| Andrew Allen | |||||
| Pierre Thuot | |||||
| Charles Gernar | |||||
| Marsha Ivins | |||||
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STS-59 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Sidney Gutierrez | April 9–20, 1994 | carried Space Radar Laboratory, a special mapping radar |
| Kevin Chilton | |||||
| Jerome Apt | |||||
| Michael Clifford | |||||
| Linda Godwin | |||||
| Thomas Jones | |||||
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Soyuz TM-19/Mir | Russia | Yury Malenchenko | July 1–Nov. 4, 1994 | Malenchenko performed first manual docking of Progress resupply ship |
| Talgat Musabayev | |||||
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STS-65 (Columbia) | U.S. | Robert Cabana | July 8–23, 1994 | first Japanese woman in space (Mukai) |
| James Halsell | |||||
| Richard Hieb | |||||
| Carl Walz | |||||
| Leroy Chiao | |||||
| Thomas Akers | |||||
| Mukai Chiaki | |||||
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STS-64 (Discovery) | U.S. | Richard Richards | Sept. 9–20, 1994 | probed Earth's atmosphere with a laser |
| Lloyd Hammond | |||||
| Jerry Linenger | |||||
| Susan Helms | |||||
| Carl Meade | |||||
| Mark Lee | |||||
 |
STS-68 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Michael Baker | Sept. 30–Oct. 11, 1994 | second mission of Space Radar Laboratory |
| Terrence Wilcutt | |||||
| Steven Smith | |||||
| Daniel Bursch | |||||
| Peter Wisoff | |||||
| Thomas Jones | |||||
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Soyuz TM-20/Mir | Russia | Aleksandr Viktorenko | Oct. 4, 1994–March 22, 1995 (Nov. 4, 1994 [Merbold]) | first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight (Kondakova) |
| Yelena Kondakova | |||||
| Ulf Merbold | |||||
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STS-66 (Atlantis) | U.S. | Donald McMonagle | Nov. 3–14, 1994 | carried third ATLAS laboratory |
| Curtis Brown | |||||
| Ellen Ochoa | |||||
| Joseph Tanner | |||||
| Jean-François Clervoy | |||||
| Scott Parazynski | |||||
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STS-63 (Discovery) | U.S. | James Wetherbee | Feb. 3–11, 1995 | demonstrated shuttle orbiter's ability to approach and maneuver around Mir |
| Eileen Collins | |||||
| Bernard Harris | |||||
| Michael Foale | |||||
| Janice Voss | |||||
| Vladimir Titov | |||||
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STS-67 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Steven Oswald | March 2–18, 1995 | carried three telescopes that observed sky in ultraviolet light |
| William Gregory | |||||
| John Grunsfeld | |||||
| Wendy Lawrence | |||||
| Tamara Jernigan | |||||
| Samuel Durrance | |||||
| Ronald Parise | |||||
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Soyuz TM-21/Mir | Russia | Vladimir Dezhurov | March 14–July 7, 1995 | first American to fly on Russian spacecraft (Thagard); addition of Spektr module to Mir |
| Gennady Strekalov | |||||
| Norman Thagard | |||||
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STS-71 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | Robert Gibson | June 27–July 7, 1995 (Sept. 11 [Solovyov, Budarin]) | first space shuttle visit to Mir |
| Charles Precourt | |||||
| Ellen Baker | |||||
| Gregory Harbaugh | |||||
| Bonnie Dunbar | |||||
| Anatoly Solovyov | |||||
| Nikolay Budarin | |||||
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STS-70 (Discovery) | U.S. | Terence Henricks | July 13–22, 1995 | launched final TDRS satellite |
| Kevin Kregel | |||||
| Donald Thomas | |||||
| Nancy Currie | |||||
| Mary Weber | |||||
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Soyuz TM-22/Mir | Russia | Yury Gidzenko | Sept. 3, 1995–Feb. 29, 1996 | first German to walk in space (Reiter) |
| Sergey Avdeyev | |||||
| Thomas Reiter | |||||
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STS-69 (Endeavour) | U.S. | David Walker | Sept. 7–18, 1995 | operated Wake Shield Facility satellite |
| Kenneth Cockrell | |||||
| James Voss | |||||
| James Newman | |||||
| Michael Gernhardt | |||||
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STS-73 (Columbia) | U.S. | Kenneth Bowersox | Oct. 20–Nov. 5, 1995 | carried Microgravity Laboratory-2 to study material growth in space |
| Kent Rominger | |||||
| Catherine Coleman | |||||
| Michael Lopez-Alegria | |||||
| Kathryn Thornton | |||||
| Fred Leslie | |||||
| Albert Sacco | |||||
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STS-74 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | Kenneth Cameron | Nov. 12–20, 1995 | attached docking module to Mir |
| James Halsell | |||||
| Chris Hadfield | |||||
| Jerry Ross | |||||
| William McArthur | |||||
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STS-72 (Endeavour) | U.S. | Brian Duffy | Jan. 11–20, 1996 | practiced space walks for International Space Station |
| Brent Jett | |||||
| Leroy Chiao | |||||
| Winston Scott | |||||
| Wakata Koichi | |||||
| Daniel Barry | |||||
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Soyuz TM-23/Mir | Russia | Yuri Onufriyenko | Feb. 21–Sept. 2, 1996 | addition of Priroda module to Mir |
| Yury Usachyov | |||||
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STS-75 (Columbia) | U.S. | Andrew Allen | Feb. 22–March 9, 1996 | deployed Tethered Satellite System |
| Scott Horowitz | |||||
| Jeffrey Hoffman | |||||
| Maurizio Cheli | |||||
| Claude Nicollier | |||||
| Franklin Chang-Díaz | |||||
| Umberto Guidoni | |||||
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STS-76 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | Kevin Chilton | March 22–31, 1996 (Sept. 26 [Lucid]) | delivered supplies to Mir |
| Richard Searfoss | |||||
| Ronald Sega | |||||
| Michael Clifford | |||||
| Linda Godwin | |||||
| Shannon Lucid | |||||
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STS-77 (Endeavour) | U.S. | John Casper | May 19–29, 1996 | deployed Inflatable Antenna Experiment |
| Curtis Brown | |||||
| Andrew Thomas | |||||
| Daniel Bursch | |||||
| Mario Runco | |||||
| Marc Garneau | |||||
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STS-78 (Columbia) | U.S. | Terence Henricks | June 20–July 7, 1996 | conducted Life and Microgravity Spacelab to study biological effects of space travel |
| Kevin Kregel | |||||
| Richard Linnehan | |||||
| Susan Helms | |||||
| Charles Brady | |||||
| Jean-Jacques Favier | |||||
| Robert Thirsk | |||||
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Soyuz TM-24/Mir | Russia | Valery Korzun | Aug. 17, 1996–March 2, 1997 (Sept. 2, 1996 [André-Deshays]) | first French woman in space (André-Deshays) |
| Aleksandr Kaleri | |||||
| Claudie André-Deshays | |||||
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STS-79 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | William Readdy | Sept. 16–26, 1996 (Jan. 22, 1997 [Blaha]) | conducted experiments in Spacelab Double Module |
| Terrence Wilcutt | |||||
| Jerome Apt | |||||
| Thomas Akers | |||||
| Carl Walz | |||||
| John Blaha | |||||
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STS-80 (Columbia) | U.S. | Kenneth Cockrell | Nov. 19–Dec. 7, 1996 | deployed and retrieved ORFEUS-SPAS II astrophysics satellite and Wake Shield Facility |
| Kent Rominger | |||||
| Tamara Jernigan | |||||
| Thomas Jones | |||||
| Story Musgrave | |||||
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STS-81 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | Michael Baker | Jan. 12–22, 1997 (May 24 [Linenger]) | returned with first plants to complete a full life cycle in space |
| Brent Jett | |||||
| Peter Wisoff | |||||
| John Grunsfeld | |||||
| Marsha Ivins | |||||
| Jerry Linenger | |||||
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Soyuz TM-25/Mir | Russia | Vasily Tsibliyev | Feb. 10–Aug. 14, 1997 (March 2 [Ewald]) | fire seriously damaged Mir's oxygen generation system (Feb. 23); collision with Progress punctured Spektr module (June 25) |
| Aleksandr Lazutkin | |||||
| Reinhold Ewald | |||||
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STS-82 (Discovery) | U.S. | Kenneth Bowersox | Feb. 11–21, 1997 | Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission |
| Scott Horowitz | |||||
| Joseph Tanner | |||||
| Steven Hawley | |||||
| Gregory Harbaugh | |||||
| Mark Lee | |||||
| Steven Smith | |||||
 |
STS-83 (Columbia) | U.S. | James Halsell | April 4–8, 1997 | carried Microgravity Science Laboratory-1; faulty fuel cell cut mission short |
| Susan Still | |||||
| Janice Voss | |||||
| Michael Gernhardt | |||||
| Donald Thomas | |||||
| Roger Crouch | |||||
| Gregory Linteris | |||||
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STS-84 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | Charles Precourt | May 15–24, 1997 (Oct. 6 [Foale]) | carried Biorack research facility, which conducted microgravity experiments |
| Eileen Collins | |||||
| Jean-François Clervoy | |||||
| Carlos Noriega | |||||
| Edward Lu | |||||
| Yelena Kondakova | |||||
| Michael Foale | |||||
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STS-94 (Columbia) | U.S. | James Halsell | July 1–17, 1997 | reflight of STS-83 |
| Susan Still | |||||
| Janice Voss | |||||
| Michael Gernhardt | |||||
| Donald Thomas | |||||
| Roger Crouch | |||||
| Gregory Linteris | |||||
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Soyuz TM-26/Mir | Russia | Anatoly Solovyov | Aug. 5, 1997–Feb. 19, 1998 | Mir's oxygen-generation system repaired |
| Pavel Vinogradov | |||||
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STS-85 (Discovery) | U.S. | Curtis Brown | Aug. 7–19, 1997 | deployed spectrometers and telescopes in space for observations of Earth's atmosphere |
| Kent Rominger | |||||
| N. Jan Davis | |||||
| Robert Curbeam | |||||
| Stephen Robinson | |||||
| Bjarni Tryggvason | |||||
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STS-86 (Atlantis)/Mir | U.S. | James Wetherbee | Sept. 25–Oct. 6, 1997 (Jan. 31, 1998 [Wolf]) | carried Spacehab module, which included replacement computer for Mir |
| Michael Bloomfield | |||||
| Vladimir Titov | |||||
| Scott Parazynski | |||||
| Jean-Loup Chrétien | |||||
| Wendy Lawrence | |||||
| David Wolf | |||||
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STS-87 (Columbia) | U.S. | Kevin Kregel | Nov. 19–Dec. 5, 1997 | carried the fourth U.S. Microgravity Payload (USMP-4) and Spartan 201, a deployable pair of solar instruments; first Ukrainian astronaut (Kadenyuk) |
| Steven Lindsey | |||||
| Kalpana Chawla | |||||
| Winston Scott | |||||
| Doi Takao | |||||
| Leonid Kadenyuk | |||||
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STS-89 (Endeavour)/Mir | U.S. | Terrence Wilcutt | Jan. 22–31, 1998 (June 12 [Thomas]) | carried out experiments in protein crystal growth |
| Joe Edwards | |||||
| James Reilly | |||||
| Michael Anderson | |||||
| Bonnie Dunbar | |||||
| Salizhan Sharipov | |||||
| Andrew Thomas | |||||
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Soyuz TM-27/Mir | Russia | Talgat Musabayev | Jan. 29–Aug. 25, 1998 (Feb. 19 [Eyharts]) | unsuccessful attempt to repair Spektr solar panel |
| Nikolay Budarin | |||||
| Léopold Eyharts | |||||
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STS-90 (Columbia) | U.S. | Richard Searfoss | April 17–May 3, 1998 | final Spacelab mission, called Neurolab |
| Scott Altman | |||||
| Richard Linnehan | |||||
| Kathryn Hire | |||||
| Daffyd Williams | |||||
| Jay Buckey | |||||
| James Pawelczyk | |||||
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STS-91 (Discovery)/Mir | U.S. | Charles Precourt | June 2–12, 1998 | final space shuttle mission to Mir |
| Dominic Gorie | |||||
| Franklin Chang-Díaz | |||||
| Wendy Lawrence | |||||
| Janet Kavandi | |||||
| Valery Ryumin | |||||
| Soyuz TM-28/Mir | Russia | Gennady Padalka | Aug. 13, 1998–Feb. 28, 1999 (Aug. 28, 1999 [Avdeyev]; Aug. 25, 1998 [Baturin]) | first Russian politician in space (Baturin) | |
| Sergey Avdeyev | |||||
| Yury Baturin | |||||
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STS-95 (Discovery) | U.S. | Curt Brown | Oct. 28–Nov. 7, 1998 | carried Spacehab module; oldest person in space (Glenn); first Spanish astronaut (Duque) |
| Steven Lindsey | |||||
| Scott Parazynski | |||||
| Pedro Duque | |||||
| Stephen Robinson | |||||
| Mukai Chiaki | |||||
| John Glenn | |||||
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STS-88 (Endeavour)/International Space Station (ISS) | U.S. | Robert Cabana | Dec. 4–15, 1998 | linked first two modules of ISS (Zarya [Russia] and Unity [U.S.]) |
| Frederick Sturckow | |||||
| Jerry Ross | |||||
| Nancy Currie | |||||
| James Newman | |||||
| Sergey Krikalyov | |||||
| Soyuz TM-29/Mir | Russia | Viktor Afanasiyev | Feb. 20–Aug. 28, 1999 (Feb. 28 [Bella]) | first Slovak astronaut (Bella) | |
| Jean-Pierre Haigneré | |||||
| Ivan Bella | |||||
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STS-96 (Discovery)/ISS | U.S. | Kent Rominger | May 27–June 6, 1999 | carried supplies to ISS |
| Rick Husband | |||||
| Tamara Jernigan | |||||
| Ellen Ochoa | |||||
| Daniel Barry | |||||
| Julie Payette | |||||
| Valery Tokarev | |||||
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STS-93 (Columbia) | U.S. | Eileen Collins | July 23–27, 1999 | launched Chandra X-ray Observatory |
| Jeffrey Ashby | |||||
| Catherine Coleman | |||||
| Steven Hawley | |||||
| Michel Tognini | |||||
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STS-103 (Discovery) | U.S. | Curtis Brown | Dec. 19–27, 1999 | Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission |
| Scott Kelly | |||||
| Steven Smith | |||||
| Jean-François Clervoy | |||||
| John Grunsfeld | |||||
| Michael Foale | |||||
| Claude Nicollier |