Major General James G. Blunt

Soyuz TM-15 was the 15th expedition to the Mir space station.^[1] It included spationaut Michel Tognini from France. The Soyuz TM-15 flight set what was then a new Soyuz spacecraft on orbit endurance record.^[2]

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Anatoly Solovyev Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Sergei Avdeyev First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Michel Tognini First spaceflight	None

Mission highlights

Michel Tognini, passenger aboard Soyuz- TM 15, was the third Frenchman to visit a space station. He conducted ten experiments using 300 kg of equipment delivered by Progress-M flights. Tognini spent 2 weeks in space as part of ongoing space cooperation between Russia and France.

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