Soyuz TM-25

Soyuz TM-25
Mission insignia
Mission statistics
Mission name	Soyuz TM-25
Spacecraft mass	7150 kg
Crew size	3 launched / 2 landed
Call sign	Си́риус (Sirius)
Launch date	February 10, 1997 14:09:30 UTC Gagarin's Start
Landing	August 14, 1997 12:17:10 UTC 170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
Mission duration	184 days, 22 hours, 07 minutes, 40 seconds
Number of orbits	~2,950
Apogee	394 km
Perigee	378 km
Orbital period	90.28 minutes
Orbital inclination	51.56°
Related missions
Previous Subsequent Soyuz TM-24 Soyuz TM-26

Soyuz TM-25 was the 30th manned spacecraft mission to visit the Russian Space Station Mir.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Vasili Tsibliyev Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Aleksandr Lazutkin First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Reinhold Ewald First spaceflight	None

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.