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  1. SpeedyPhill Founder Of Aussie Cricket Blog Mark Waugh Universe Feb 26, 2017

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    The Russian Mir space station was operational between February 1986 and April 2000.
    The space station was supplied via manned Soyuz missions or unmanned Progress cargo missions. The very first Space Shuttle docking with the Mir space station occurred in June 1995...
    Omega flew two lots of speedmaster chronographs to Mir, known as 90 days and 1 year on Mir;
    10 Speedmasters from December 1990 to March 1991 (Up with Soyuz TM-11... down with ?)
    35 Speedmasters from July 1993 to July 1994 (Up with Soyuz TM-17 and down with Soyuz TM-18)

    As there were no Progress supply missions for those dates, can anyone provide details of this is correct and how the first batch was returned in March 1991 ? Progress ships burn up during re-entry ::confused2::
     
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  2. SpeedyPhill Founder Of Aussie Cricket Blog Mark Waugh Universe Feb 27, 2017

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    The caseback of those 10 " 90 days on Mir " Speedmasters has inscription " SPACELAB MIR DEC.90 - MAR.91 " ::confused2::
    For a marketing person there's probably no difference between Spacelab (a reusable European laboratory flown in the Shuttle's cargo bay) and the Mir space station... so caseback makes no sense?
    So let's guess that these were flown on Soyuz TM-11... stayed onboard Mir for 6 months, but were unpacked for testing during 90 days...
    ...
    Just noticed that Omega checked & corrected their 2017 press kit :whistling:
     
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