Soyuz TM-13
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-13 |
| Call Sign: | Донба́сс (Donbass) |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | October 2, 1991 05:59:38 UTC Gagarin's Start |
| Landing: | March 25, 1992 08:51:22 UTC near Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 175 days 02 hours 51 minutes 44 seconds |
| Number of Orbits: | ~2,730 |
[edit] Crew
Launched:
- Alexander Volkov (3), Commander
- Toktar Aubakirov (1) - Kazakhstan, Cosmonaut-Researcher
- Franz Viehböck (1) - Austria, Cosmonaut-Researcher
Landed:
- Alexander Volkov (3), Commander
- Sergei Krikalev (2)
- Klaus-Dietrich Flade (1) - Germany
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 7150 kg
- Perigee: 195 km
- Apogee: 232 km
- Inclination: 51.7°
- Period: 92.4 minutes
[edit] Mission highlights
13th expedition to Mir. Included astronaut from Austria and cosmonaut from soon to be independent Kazakhstan.
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 newly independent 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. Krikalev, aka "the last Citizen of the USSR ", launched from the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR, and landed in independent Kazakhstan.
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