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Soyuz TM 6

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COSPAR ID
  
1988-075A

Spacecraft type
  
Dates
  
29 Aug 1988 – 21 Dec 1988

Landing date
  
21 December 1988

Launch site
  
Baikonur Cosmodrome

Orbits completed
  
~1,840

Manufacturer
  
NPO Energia

Launch date
  
29 August 1988

Rocket
  
Crew size
  
3

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Mission duration
  
114 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes, 49 seconds

Launch mass
  
7,070 kilograms (15,590 lb)

Landing crew
  
Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov, Musa Manarov, Jean-Loup Chrétien

Soyuz TM-6 was the sixth manned spacecraft to visit the Soviet Space Station Mir. It was launched in August 1988, during the station's third long-duration expedition, Mir EO-3. The three-person crew that was launched consisted of Research Doctor Valeri Polyakov, who became part of the EO-3 crew, as well as the two crew members of the week-long mission Mir EP-3, which included the first ever Afghan cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Mohmand.

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On September 8, Soyuz TM-6 was undocked from Mir's Kvant port and redocked onto the Mir Base Block's port. It remained there until December, when it brought Titov and Manarov of the EO-3 crew back to Earth. It also landed French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien, ending his week-long spaceflight which started with Soyuz TM-7.

Crew

Dr. Valeri Polyakov remained behind on Mir with cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov when Mohmand and Lyakhov returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-5.

Its crew had a unique makeup, with a commander (Vladimir Lyakhov) who had been trained to fly a Soyuz-TM solo in the event a rescue ship needed to be sent to recover two cosmonauts from Mir, no flight engineer, and two inexperienced cosmonaut-researchers. One was Dr. Valeri Polyakov, who would remain aboard Mir with Titov and Manarov to monitor their health during the final months of their planned year-long stay. The other was Intercosmos cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, from Afghanistan.

Mission parameters

  • Mass: 7070 kg
  • Perigee: 195 km
  • Apogee: 228 km
  • Inclination: 51.6°
  • Period: 88.7 minutes
  • References

    Soyuz TM-6 Wikipedia


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