Soyuz TM-21 carried cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, along with NASA astronaut Norman Thagard, to the Mir space station. Thagard became the first American to launch aboard a Russian rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 70th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 March 1995, 06:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1995-010
- Launches in 1995
- 12th of 80
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