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Soyuz TM-6

1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

Summary

1988 Soviet crewed spaceflight to Mir

Field	Value
name	Soyuz TM-6
image	Soyuz TM-6 patch.svg
insignia	Soyuz TM-6 patch.svg
COSPAR_ID	1988-075A
SATCAT	19443
mission_duration	114 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes, 49 seconds
orbits_completed	~1,840
spacecraft	Soyuz 7K-STM No. 56
spacecraft_type	Soyuz-TM
manufacturer	NPO Energia
launch_mass	7070 kg
launch_date	UTC
launch_rocket	Soyuz-U2
launch_site	Baikonur 1/5
landing_date	UTC
landing_site	160 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
crew_size	3
crew_launching	Vladimir Lyakhov
Valeri Polyakov
Abdul Mohmand
crew_landing	Vladimir Titov
Musa Manarov
Jean-Loup Chrétien
crew_callsign	Прото́н (Proton)
orbit_reference	Geocentric
orbit_regime	Low Earth
apsis	gee
docking	{{Infobox spaceflight/Dock
docking_target	Mir
docking_type	dock
docking_date	31 August 1988, 05:40:44 UTC
undocking_date	21 December 1988, 02:32:54 UTC
previous_mission	Soyuz TM-5
next_mission	Soyuz TM-7
programme	Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Valeri Polyakov Abdul Mohmand Musa Manarov Jean-Loup Chrétien (Crewed missions)

Soyuz TM-6 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir. It was launched on 29 August 1988, at 04:23:11 UTC, for 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.

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 25-day-long spaceflight which started with Soyuz TM-7.

Crew

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

The crew of Soyuz TM-6 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 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

"Mir EO-3". [[Encyclopedia Astronautica]].
The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM6.htm
"Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TM-6".
D.F.S.Portree. (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage".

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