Soyuz TM-13
| Mission Statistics
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-13
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| Call Sign: | Донба́сс (Donbass)
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| Number of Crew Members: | 3
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| Launch: | October 2, 1991
05:59:38 UTC
Baikonur LC1
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| Landing: | March 25, 1992
08:51:22 UTC
near Dzhezkazgan
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| Duration: | 175 days 02 hours 51 minutes 44 seconds
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| Number of Orbits: | ~2,730
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Crew
Launched:
Landed:
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 7150 kg
- Perigee: 195 km
- Apogee: 232 km
- Inclination: 51.7°
- Period: 92.4 minutes
Mission Highlights
13th expedition to Mir. Included astronaut from Austria and cosmonaut from Kazakhstan.
Soyuz-TM 13 carried Austrian cosmonaut-researcher Franz Viehboeck and Kazakh cosmonaut-researcher Toktar Aubakirov. The flight was unusual for carrying no flight engineer. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Alexandr Volkov commanded. The Austrians paid $7 million to fly Viehboeck to Mir, and the Kazakh cosmonaut flew partly in an effort to encourage newlyindependent Kazakhstan to continue to permit launchings from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The cosmonaut-researchers photographed their respective countries from orbit and conducted the usual range of materials processing and medical experiments. Artsebarski traded places with Volkov and returned to Earth in Soyuz-TM 12.
Spent 175 days docked to Mir. Krikalev launched from the Kazakh Soviet
Socialist Republic of the USSR, and landed in independent Kazakhstan.
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