Soyuz TM-21
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Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz TM-21 canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5011894 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Soyuz TM-21 Context triple: [Norman E. Thagard, spaceMission, Soyuz TM-21]
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A.
Soyuz T-15
Soyuz T-15 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for inaugurating operations on the Mir space station while also visiting the aging Salyut 7 station in a unique dual-docking flight.
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B.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
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C.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
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D.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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E.
Vostok spacecraft
The Vostok spacecraft was the Soviet Union’s pioneering series of crewed space capsules that carried the first humans, including Yuri Gagarin, into orbit during the early 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Soyuz TM-21 Target entity description: Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
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A.
Soyuz T-15
Soyuz T-15 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for inaugurating operations on the Mir space station while also visiting the aging Salyut 7 station in a unique dual-docking flight.
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B.
Salyut 7
Salyut 7 was a Soviet-era modular space station that served as one of the last and most advanced stations in the Salyut program, paving the way for the later Mir space station.
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C.
Soyuz 19
Soyuz 19 was the Soviet spacecraft that participated in the historic 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, enabling the first international crewed space docking between the USSR and the United States.
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D.
Soyuz spacecraft
The Soyuz spacecraft is a long-serving Russian crewed vehicle used to transport astronauts and cosmonauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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E.
Vostok spacecraft
The Vostok spacecraft was the Soviet Union’s pioneering series of crewed space capsules that carried the first humans, including Yuri Gagarin, into orbit during the early 1960s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soyuz-TM spacecraft
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crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| associatedShuttleMission | STS-71 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriedAstronaut | Norman E. Thagard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriedCosmonaut |
Gennady Strekalov
NERFINISHED
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Vladimir Dezhurov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Russia ⓘ |
| crewExchange |
delivered EO-18 crew to Mir
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served as lifeboat for Mir during EO-18 ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Gennady Strekalov
NERFINISHED
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Norman E. Thagard NERFINISHED ⓘ Vladimir Dezhurov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSize | 3 ⓘ |
| dockedTo | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Soyuz TM-22 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| internationalCooperation | United States–Russia space cooperation ⓘ |
| launchCountry |
Kazakhstan
NERFINISHED
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Russia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1995-03-14 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-U2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| manufacturer | RKK Energia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDesignation | Soyuz TM-21 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionType |
crew transport
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long-duration spaceflight ⓘ |
| nationalityOfCrewMember |
American
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Russian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
carrying first U.S. astronaut to launch on a Russian spacecraft
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early Shuttle–Mir cooperation ⓘ |
| operator |
Roscosmos
NERFINISHED
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Russian Federal Space Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbit | Low Earth orbit ⓘ |
| partOf | Shuttle–Mir program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Soyuz TM-20 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| program |
Mir program
NERFINISHED
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Soyuz program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reentry | crew returned to Earth in Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-71 ⓘ |
| returnVehicleFor | Mir EO-18 crew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyPartner | NASA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftRole | ferry spacecraft for Mir ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Soyuz-TM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationDestination | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationDocking | Mir core module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationExpedition | Mir EO-18 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor |
support of joint U.S.–Russian spaceflight program
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transport of crew to Mir ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Soyuz TM-21 Description of subject: Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
Referenced by (2)
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