Soyuz is a type of spacecraft that Russia — and previously, the Soviet Union — has used to launch cosmonauts and astronauts into space for decades.

Soyuz TM-31 was the first Soyuz spacecraft to dock with the ISS (International Space Station). It was launched from Kazakhstan on October 31, 2000, by a Soyuz-U rocket and carried a crew of three to ...

Faris launched aboard Soyuz TM-3 to the Mir space station as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos program. Muhammed Faris, who was the first cosmonaut from Syria and second Arab to fly into ...

Soyuz Program. The year 1967 marked a turning point for Soviet human spaceflight, ... a Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz TM-31, successfully delivered Expedition 1 to the ISS in October that same year.

Sergi Krikalev and Alexander Volkov were to pilot the Soyuz TM-13 reentry spacecraft to a landing in Kazakhstan - now an independent country, we reported. Krikalev was launched to the Mir in May ...

On October 31, 2000, a remarkable event took place: it was the last day when every human being was still present on Earth. Thisdate marked thelaunch of the Soyuz TM-31 capsule from the Baikonur ...

At the age of 46, he launched to the Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-6 on Aug. 29, 1988—16 years after becoming a Soviet cosmonaut in 1972.

In July of that year, Krikalev was asked - and agreed - to stay on the space station as a flight engineer for the next crew who were due to arrive in October abroad the Soyuz TM-13.

But his planned November launch aboard Soyuz TM-18 was delayed until January 8, 1994. And with plans for NASA’s space shuttle to visit Mir in mid-1995, Polyakov’s mission was further cut back ...