NORMAN E.THAGARD
Apr 22, 2021
2 minutes
When Thagard boarded the Mir space station alongside cosmosnauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennadi Strekalov, the culture of space exploration was changed forever. The mission demonstrated that space exploration and discovery was now well and truly a multinational enterprise.
Prior to the pioneering Mir 18 mission, Thagard only had one year of intense training under the Russian teaching system
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