Soyuz TM-13
Mission duration | 175 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes, 44 seconds | ||||
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Orbits completed | ~2,730 | ||||
Spacecraft properties | |||||
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM | ||||
Manufacturer | NPO Energia | ||||
Launch mass | 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) | ||||
Crew | |||||
Crew size | 3 | ||||
Members | Alexander Volkov | ||||
Launching | Toktar Aubakirov Franz Viehböck |
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Landing | Sergei Krikalev Klaus-Dietrich Flade |
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Callsign | Донба́сс (Donbass) | ||||
Start of mission | |||||
Launch date | October 2, 1991, 05:59:38 | UTC||||
Rocket | Soyuz-U2 | ||||
End of mission | |||||
Landing date | March 25, 1992, 08:51:22 | UTC||||
Landing site | near Dzhezkazgan | ||||
Orbital parameters | |||||
Reference system | Geocentric | ||||
Regime | Low Earth | ||||
Perigee | 195 kilometres (121 mi) | ||||
Apogee | 232 kilometres (144 mi) | ||||
Inclination | 51.7 degrees | ||||
Period | 92.4 minutes | ||||
Docking with Mir | |||||
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Soyuz TM-13 was the 13th expedition to Mir space station.[1] It included an astronaut from Austria and a cosmonaut from the soon-to-be independent region of Kazakhstan.
Crew
Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | / Alexander Volkov Third spaceflight |
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Research Cosmonaut/Flight Engineer | Toktar Aubakirov First spaceflight |
/ Sergei Krikalev Second spaceflight |
Research Cosmonaut | Franz Viehböck First spaceflight |
Klaus-Dietrich Flade First spaceflight |
Mission highlights
Soyuz-TM 13 carried Austrian cosmonaut-researcher Franz Viehböck and still Soviet-Kazakh cosmonaut-researcher Toktar Aubakirov. The flight was unusual for carrying no flight engineer. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Alexandr Volkov commanded. The Austrians paid $7 million to fly Viehböck to Mir, and the Kazakh cosmonaut flew partly in an effort to encourage Kazakhstan to continue to permit launchings from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The cosmonaut-researchers photographed their respective countries from orbit and conducted the usual range of materials processing and medical experiments. Artsebarsky traded places with Volkov and returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-12.
Spent 175 days docked to Mir.
Sergei Krikalev and Alexandr Volkov, aka "the last Citizens of the USSR", launched from the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic within the USSR, and landed in the independent Republic of Kazakhstan.
- ↑ The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-tm13.htm