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[i]There was a question regarding what constitutes a "Soyuz Visiting Crew." The Russians have been using this nomenclature for years, generally to describe crews who are not a long-duration "Expedition" crew. For ISS, it is a crew that delivers a new Soyuz and returns on the old one. If memory serves, Mir visiting crews included the Europeans and others who flew on Soyuz exchange flights, and also the U.S. astronauts who flew as part of Phase 1 (and were delivered/returned by Shuttle, and tended to overlap Mir Expedition Crews): VC1 - Musabayev, Baturin, Tito (TM-32/2S up, TM-31/2R down) VC2 - Afanasyev. Kozeev, Haignere (TM33/3S up, TM-32/2S down) VC3 - Gidzenko, Vittori, Shuttleworth (TM-34/4S up, TM-33/3S down) VC4 - Zalyotin, DeWinne, Lonchakov (TMA-1/5S up, TM-34/4S down) VC5 - Duque (TMA-3/7S up, TMA-2/6S down) VC6 - Kuipers (TMA-4/8S up, TMA-3/7S down) VC7 - Shargin (TMA-5/9S up, TMA-4/8S down) VC8 - Vittori (TMA-6/10S up, TMA-5/9S down)[/i]
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