- Soyuz TM-25
Infobox Space mission
mission_name = Soyuz TM-25
sign = Си́риус (Sirius )
crew_members = 3 launched / 2 landed
launch =February 10 ,1997
14:09:30 UTCGagarin's Start
landing =August 14 ,1997
12:17:10 UTC
170 km SE ofDzhezkazgan
duration = 184 days, 22 hours, 07 minutes, 40 seconds
orbits = ~2,950 |Crew
Launched:
*Vasili Tsibliyev (2)
*Aleksandr Lazutkin (1)
*Reinhold Ewald (1) -Germany Landed:
*Vasili Tsibliyev (2)
*Aleksandr Lazutkin (1)Mission parameters
*Mass: 7150 kg
*Perigee: 378 km
*Apogee: 394 km
*Inclination: 51.65°
*Period: 90.28 minutesMission highlights
This was the 30th expedition to
Mir . AnESA astronaut from Germany was included on the mission.Soyuz TM-25 is a
Russia n spacecraft that was launched to carry astronauts and supplies to Mir station. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baykonur cosmodrome at 14:09 UT to ferry three cosmonauts for a 162-day stay at the station; it docked with the station at 15:51 UT on 12 February 97. Within meters of automatic approach to the station, a slight misalignment was noted, and the commander of the module had to dock it by manual steering.
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