COSPAR ID 1997-003A Spacecraft type Soyuz-TM Apogee 394,000 m Launch date 10 February 1997 Rocket Soyuz-U | Orbits completed ~2,950 Manufacturer RKK Energia Dates 10 Feb 1997 – 14 Aug 1997 Landing date 14 August 1997 | |
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Mission duration 184 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, 40 seconds Launch mass 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) Operator Roscosmos State Corporation Members Vasily Tsibliyev, Aleksandr Lazutkin | ||
Soyuz TM-25 was the 30th manned spacecraft mission to visit the Russian Space Station Mir.
Mission highlights
This was the 30th expedition to Mir. An ESA astronaut from Germany was included on the mission.
Soyuz TM-25 is a Russian 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.
References
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