Notable Events |
Space Programs |
Years |
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| Program | Launch Date | Crew | Notable Events |
| Soyuz 35 | April 9, 1980 | Popov Ryumin |
Crew spent 185 days on Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 35 |
| Soyuz 36 | May 26, 1980 | Kubasov Farkas |
Spent 8 days on Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 35 |
| Soyuz T-2 | June 5, 1980 | Malyshev Aksenov |
First piloted test of newly developed Soyuz T |
| Soyuz 37 | July 23, 1980 | Gorbatko Pham |
First Vietnamese cosmonaut |
| Soyuz 38 | September 18, 1980 | Romanenko Tamayo-Mendez |
First black cosmonaut, from Cuba |
| Soyuz T-3 | November 27, 1980 | Strekalov Makarov Strekalov |
First Soviet crew of three since 1971 |
| Soyuz T-4 | March 12, 1981 | Kovalenok Savinykh |
Boarded Salyut 6 for a seven-day stay |
| Soyuz 39 | March 22, 1981 | Dzhanibekov Gurragcha |
First Mongolian crew member in space |
| Columbia (STS-1) | April 12, 1981 | Young Crippen |
First piloted orbital test flight of US Space Shuttle |
| Soyuz 40 | May 14, 1981 | Popov Prunariu |
Seven-day visit to Salyut 6; last flight of Soyuz |
| Columbia (STS-2) | November 12, 1981 | Engle Truly |
Payload included OSTA 1; crew test remote manipulator arm |
| Columbia (STS-3) | March 22, 1982 | Lousma Fullerton |
First use of alternate shuttle landing site |
| Soyuz T-5 | May 13, 1982 | Berezovoy Lebedev |
Crew stayed on Salyut 7 for 211 days; returned on Soyuz T-7 |
| Soyuz T-6 | June 24, 1982 | Dzhanibekov Ivanchenkov Chretien |
Mission to Salyut 7 |
| Columbia (STS-4) | June 27, 1982 | Mattingly Hartsfield |
Carried US Department of Defense payload |
| Soyuz T-7 | August 19, 1982 | Popov Serebrov Savitskaya |
Savitskaya became second Soviet woman in space |
| Columbia (STS-5) | November 11, 1982 | Brand Overmyer Allen Lenoir |
Launced commercial satellites SBS 3 and Anik C-3 |
| Challenger (STS-6) | April 4, 1983 | Weitz Bobko Peterson Musgrave |
Launched first Tracking and Date Relay Satellite |
| Soyuz T-8 | April 20, 1983 | Titov Strekalov Serebrov |
Unsuccessful docking with Salyut 7 |
| Challenger (STS-7) | June 18, 1983 | Crippen Hauck Fabian Ride Thagard |
First American woman in space - Ride |
| Soyuz T-9 | June 28, 1983 | Lyakhov Aleksandrov |
Crew spent 149 days on Salyut 7 |
| Challenger (STS-8) | August 30, 1983 | Truly Brandenstein Bluford Gardner Thornton |
First flight of African-American astronaut - Bluford |
| Columbia (STS-9) | November 28, 1983 | Young Shaw Garriott Parker Lichtenberg Merbold |
First spacelab mission; first non-US crew member on US flight - Merbold |
| Challenger (STS-41B) | February 3, 1984 | Brand Gibson McCandless McNair Stewart |
First in-space operation of Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) |
| Soyuz T-10 | February 8, 1984 | Kizim Solovev Atkov |
Crew spent record-setting 237 days in space |
| Soyuz T-11 | April 3, 1984 | Malyshev Strekalov Sharma |
First flight of cosmonaut from India |
| Challenger (STS-41C) | April 6, 1984 | Crippen Scobee Hart van Hoften Nelson |
Crew launched Long Duration Exposure Facility |
| Soyuz T-12 | July 17, 1984 | Dzhanibekov Savitskaya Volk |
Savitskaya became first woman to perform an EVA |
| Discovery (STS-41D) | August 30, 1984 | Hartsfield Coats Mullane Hawley Resnick Walker |
Space Shuttle Discovery's first flight |
| Challenger (STS-41G) | October 5, 1984 | Crippen McBride Leestma Ride Sullivan Garneau Scully-Power |
First flight of a Canadian astronaut - Garneau |
| Discovery (STS-51A) | November 8, 1984 | Hauck Walker Allen Fisher Gardner |
Crew returned Westar 6 and Palapa B2 to Earth |
| Discovery (STS-51C) | January 24, 1985 | Mattingly Shriver Buchli Onizuka Payton |
Mission for US Department of Defense; first Asian-American astronaut - Onizuka |
| Discovery (STS-51D) | April 12, 1985 | Bobko Williams Seddon Griggs Hoffman Walker Garn |
First flight of US elected official, Senator Garn |
| Challenger (STS-51B) | April 29, 1985 | Overmyer Gregory Lind Thagard Thornton van den Berg Wang |
Spacelab-3 mission |
| Soyuz T-13 | June 5, 1985 | Dzhanibekov Savinykh |
Repair mission to Salyut 7 |
| Discovery (STS-51G) | June 17, 1985 | Brandenstein Creighton Fabian Lucid Nagel Al-Saud Baudry |
Carried three communications satellites |
| Challenger (STS-51F) | July 29, 1985 | Fullerton Bridges England Henize Musgrave Acton Bartoe |
Spacelab-2 mission |
| Discovery (STS-51I) | August 27, 1985 | Engle Covey Fisher Lounge van Hoften |
Crew launched three satellites and repaired a disabled one |
| Soyuz T-14 | September 17, 1985 | Vasyutin Grechko Volkov |
Boarded Salyut 7; mission cut short due to illness |
| Atlantis (STS-51J) | October 3, 1985 | Bobko Grabe Hilmers Stewart Pailes |
First flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis; mission for DOD |
| Challenger (STS-61A) | October 30, 1985 | Hartsfield Nagel Bluford Buchli Dunbar Furrer Messerschmid Ockels |
Carried the German spacelab D-1 |
| Atlantis (STS-61B) | November 26, 1985 | Shaw O'Connor Cleave Ross Spring Neri-Vela Walker |
Communications satellites launced; first flight of Mexican astronaut |
| Columbia (STS-61C) | January 12, 1986 | Gibson Bolden Chang-Diaz Hawley G. Nelson Cenker B. Nelson |
First Hispanic-American astronaut (Chang-Diaz) and member of the House of Respresentatives (B. Nelson) |
| Challenger (STS-51L) | January 28, 1986 | Scobee Smith McNair Onizuka Resnik Jarvis McAuliffe |
Shuttle exploded 73 seconds into flight; all seven crew members died; crew included first teacher in space |
| Soyuz T-15 | March 13, 1986 | Kizim Solovyov |
First occupation of Mir space station |
| Soyuz TM-2 | February 5, 1987 | Romanenko Laveykin |
Romanenko set space endurance record of 326 days aboard Mir |
| Soyuz TM-3 | July 22, 1987 | Viktorenko Aleksandrov Faris |
Mission to Mir; first flight of Syrian cosmonaut |
| Soyuz TM-4 | December 21, 1987 | Titov Manarov Levchenko |
Mission to Mir |
| Soyuz TM-5 | June 7, 1988 | Savinykh Solovyev Aleksandrov |
Mission to Mir; crew returned in Soyuz TM-3 |
| Soyuz TM-6 | August 29, 1988 | Lyakhov Polyakov Mohmand |
Mission to Mir; first flight of Afghani cosmonaut |
| Discovery (STS-26) | September 29, 1988 | Hauck Covey Hilmers Lounge Nelson |
First US Shuttle flight since Challenger accident |
| Energiia-Buran | November 15, 1988 | unpiloted | First and only flight (to date) of Soviet space shuttle |
| Soyuz TM-7 | November 26, 1988 | Volkov Krikalev Chretien |
Titov and Manarov remained on Mir for record-setting 366 days |
| Atlantis (STS-27) | December 2, 1988 | Gibson Gardner Mullane Ross Shepherd |
Mission for US Department of Defense |
| Discovery (STS-29) | March 13, 1989 | Coats Blaha Bagian Buchli Springer |
Launch of TDRS-4 |
| Atlantis (STS-30) | May 4, 1989 | Walker Grabe Cleave Lee Thagard |
Launched Venus Orbiter Magellan |
| Columbia (STS-28) | August 8, 1989 | Shaw Richards Adamson Brown Leestma |
Mission for US Department of Defense |
| Soyuz TM-8 | September 5, 1989 | Viktorenko Serebrov |
Five-month mission to Mir |
| Atlantis (STS-34) | October 18, 1989 | Williams McCulley Baker Chang-Diaz Lucid |
Launched Galileo probe to Jupiter |
| Discovery (STS-33) | November 22, 1989 | Gregory Blaha Carter Musgrave Thornton |
Mission for US Department of Defense |