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Deep Space Rendezvous

Date (GMT Greenwich Mean Time Greenwich Mean Time is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United... )	Spacecraft	Event	Remarks
8 February	Ulysses	1st flyby of Jupiter Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...	Gravity assist
15 February	Hiten Hiten The Hiten Spacecraft , given the English name Celestial Maiden and known before launch as MUSES-A , part of the MUSES Program, was built by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of Japan and launched on January 24, 1990...	Selenocentric orbit Lunar orbit In astronomy, lunar orbit refers to the orbit of an object around the Moon.As used in the space program, this refers not to the orbit of the Moon about the Earth, but to orbits by various manned or unmanned spacecraft around the Moon... injection
14 July	Giotto Giotto mission Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency, intended to fly by and study Halley's Comet. On 13 March 1986, the mission succeeded in approaching Halley's nucleus at a distance of 596 kilometers....	Flyby of 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup Comet Grigg–Skjellerup is a periodic comet.Discovered in 1902 by John Grigg of New Zealand, and rediscovered in its next appearance in 1922 by John Francis Skjellerup, an Australian then living and working for about two decades in South Africa where he was a founder member of the Astronomical...	Closest approach: 200 kilometres (124.3 mi)
8 October	Pioneer Venus Orbiter	Deliberately deorbited into the Venerian Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6, bright enough to cast shadows... atmosphere
8 December	Galileo	2nd flyby of the Earth	Gravity assist; Closest approach: 305 kilometres (189.5 mi)

EVAs

Start Date/Time	Duration	End Time	Spacecraft	Crew	Remarks
20 February 20:09	4 hours	00:21	Mir Mir Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the... EO-10 Kvant-2 Kvant-2 Kvant-2 was the third module and second major addition to the Mir space station. Its primary purpose was to deliver new science experiments, better life support systems, and an airlock to Mir. It was launched on November 26, 1989 on a Proton rocket. It docked to Mir on December 6...	Aleksandr Volkov Sergei Krikalyov	Performed maintenance activities on the outside of Mir, including cleaning camera lenses. Volkov had problems with the cooling system on his Orlan space suit, and was limited in his mobility.
10 May 20:40	3 hours 43 minutes	11 May 00:23	STS-49 STS-49 -Mission parameters:Mass:Orbiter landing with payload: Payload: Perigee: Apogee: Inclination: 28.35°Period: 90.6 min-Space walks: Thuot and Hieb – EVA 1*EVA 1 Start: 10 May 1992 – 20:40 UTC...	Pierre J. Thuot Pierre J. Thuot Pierre Joseph Thuot is a retired U.S. Navy captain and a NASA astronaut from 1985 to 1995.- Personal :Born on May 19, 1955, in Groton, Connecticut, Thuot considers Fairfax, Virginia, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, to be his hometowns. He is married to the former Cheryl Ann Mattingly of... Richard Hieb Richard Hieb Richard James Hieb is a former NASA astronaut and a veteran of three space shuttle missions. He was a mission specialist on STS-39 and STS-49, and was a payload commander on STS-65...	Thuot attempted to capture the Intelsat VI satellite using a capture bar while Hieb stood by to assist with placement in the payload bay. After multiple attempts to catch Intelsat VI, the spacewalkers returned to the airlock to consider the failed attempts.
11 May 21:05	5 hours 30 minutes	12 May 02:35	STS-49 Endeavour	Pierre J. Thuot Richard Hieb	Thuot tried five more times to capture Intelsat VI while Hieb stood by to assist. Once again Thuot was unable to engaged the capture bar to the satellite.
13 May 21:17	8 hours 29 minutes	14 May 05:46	STS-49 Endeavour	Pierre J. Thuot Richard Hieb Thomas Akers Thomas Akers Thomas Dale Akers is a former astronaut in the United States Space Shuttle program.-Education:He graduated from the University of Missouri–Rolla with B.S. and M.S...	Thuot, Hieb and Akers captured Intelsat VI with their hands. The trio then pulled the satellite into the payload pay, added a new perigee kick motor, and launched the satellite away from Endeavour. This spacewalk was the first three-person spacewalk in history and the three spacewalkers also set a new record for elapsed spacewalk time.
14 May ~21:00	7 hours 44 minutes	15 May ~04:45	STS-49 Endeavour	Thomas Akers Kathryn C. Thornton Kathryn C. Thornton Kathryn Ryan Cordell Thornton is an American scientist and a former NASA astronaut with over 975 hours in space, including 21 hours of extravehicular activity...	Tested space station assembly techniques on an experimental structure, the Assembly of Station by Extravehicular Activity Methods (ASEM).
8 July 12:38	2 hours 3 minutes	14:41	Mir EO-11 Kvant-2	Aleksandr Kaleri	Inspected several gyrodynes, located on the Kvant-2 module, near the airlock to provide data needed to prepare for the planned repair and replacement work of the gyrodynes.
3 September 13:32	3 hours 56 minutes	17:28	Mir EO-12 Kvant-2	Sergei Avdeyev Sergei Avdeyev Sergei Avdeyev is a Russian engineer and cosmonaut.Avdeyev was born in Chapayevsk, Samara Oblast , Russian SFSR. He graduated from in 1979 as an engineer-physicist. From 1979 to 1987 he worked as an engineer for NPO Energiya... Anatoly Solovyev Anatoly Solovyev Anatoly Yakovlevich Solovyev is a former Soviet pilot, cosmonaut, and Colonel. Solovyev holds the world record on the number of spacewalks performed , and accumulated time spent spacewalking .- Family :...	Moved the VDU thruster unit to its position and prepared the Sofora girder for installation of the VDU.
7 September 11:47	5 hours 8 minutes	16:55	Mir EO-12 Kvant-2	Sergei Avdeyev Anatoly Solovyev	Installed the electrical and control cables needed by the VDU thruster for operation on the Sofora truss and recovered the Russian flag installed on the Sofora truss the year before.
10:06	5 hours 44 minutes	15:50	Mir EO-12 Kvant-2	Sergei Avdeyev Anatoly Solovyev	Completed install of the VDU thruster on Sofora truss, and moved the truss into its extended position.
15 September 07:49	3 hours 33 minutes	11:22	Mir EO-12 Kvant-2	Sergei Avdeyev Anatoly Solovyev	Collected samples of a solar array and relocated the Kurs Kurs (docking system) Kurs is a radio telemetry system used by the Soviet and later Russian space program.Kurs was developed by the Research Institute of Precision Instruments before 1985 and manufactured by the Kiev Radio Factory .- History :... docking antenna on the Kristall Kristall The Kristall module was the fourth module and the third major addition to the Mir space station. As with previous modules, its configuration was based on the 77K module, and was originally named "Kvant 3". It was launched on May 31, 1990 on a Proton rocket... module in preparation of the arrival of Soyuz TM-16 Soyuz TM-16 -Crew:-Mission highlights:16th expedition to Mir.First Soyuz without a probe and drogue docking system since 1976. It carriedan APAS-89 androgynous docking unit different from the APAS-75 unit used for ASTP in 1975, yet similar in general principles. Soyuz-TM 16 used it to dock with an androgynous... .

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