Soyuz TM-6
| Mission Statistics
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-6
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| Call Sign: | Прото́н (Proton)
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| Number of Crew Members: | 3
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| Launch: | August 29, 1988
04:23:11 UTC
Baikonur LC1
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| Landing: | December 21, 1988
09:57:00 UTC
160 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
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| Duration: | 114 days 05 hours 33 minutes 49 seconds
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| Number of Orbits: | ~1,840
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Crew
Launched:
Landed:
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 7070 kg
- Perigee: 195 km
- Apogee: 228 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
Mission Highlights
6th expedition to Mir. 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. Mohmand’s experiment program was dominated by a series of observations of Afghanistan, called Shamshad. During return to Earth, Soyuz-TM 5 suffered a combined computer software and sensor problem, which delayed its reentry by 24 hr.
Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
