Mission type Mir crew transport SATCAT no. 23288 Spacecraft Soyuz 7K-STM No.69 Dates 3 Oct 1994 – 22 Mar 1995 Landing date 22 March 1995 | COSPAR ID 1994-063A Orbits completed ~2,760 Period 1.5 hours Launch date 3 October 1994 Rocket Soyuz-U2 | |
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Mission duration 169 days, 5 hours, 21 minutes, 35 seconds Operator Roscosmos State Corporation Members Aleksandr Viktorenko, Yelena Kondakova | ||
Russia soyuz tm 20 docks with mir space station
The Soyuz-TM crew transports (T - транспортный - Transportnyi - meaning transport, M - модифицированный - Modifitsirovannyi - meaning modified) were fourth generation (1986–2002) Soyuz spacecraft used for ferry flights to the Mir and ISS space stations. It added to the Soyuz-T new docking and rendezvous, radio communications, emergency and integrated parachute/landing engine systems. The new Kurs rendezvous and docking system permitted the Soyuz-TM to maneuver independently of the station, without the station making "mirror image" maneuvers to match unwanted translations introduced by earlier models' aft-mounted attitude control.
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Soyuz TM-20 was the twentieth expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir.
Mission highlights
20th expedition to Mir.
Carried 10 kg of equipment for use by Merbold in ESA’s month-long Euromir 94 experiment program. During automatic approach to Mir’s front port, the spacecraft yawed unexpectedly. Viktorenko completed a manual docking without additional incident.