Soyuz TM-30 carried cosmonauts Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kaleri to the Mir space station, the 39th and final crewed mission there. Funded by the private venture MirCorp, it aimed to inspect and repair the aging station, including the first privately funded spacewalk.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 642nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 4 April 2000, 05:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2000-018
- Launches in 2000
- 20th of 85
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