[FPSPACE] Soyuz TM31

[Phillip Clark]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Raoul Lannoy wrote:
> Why is this flight called Soyuz TM31 ?
> Why not name it somehow after the ISS (yes, I know, it doesn't have a
> name......yet:-)
> I always thought that the "M" in Soyuz TM stood for Mir.

The "M" refers to modified or modernised, compared with the older Soyuz-T
series.

There is a new Soyuz-TMA series in the pipe-line for ISS missions, but the
maiden flight is one or two launches into the future.

Phillip Clark

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