Soyuz TM-6
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| Mission name | Soyuz TM-6 | ||||
| Crew size | 3 | ||||
| Call sign | Прото́н (Proton) | ||||
| Launch date | August 29, 1988 04:23:11 UTC[1] Gagarin's Start |
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| Landing | December 21, 1988 09:57:00 UTC [1] 160 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
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| Mission duration | 114 days 5 h, 33 min, 49 s | ||||
| Number of orbits | ~1,840 | ||||
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Soyuz TM-6 was the sixth manned spacecraft to visit the Soviet Space Station Mir.[2] 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.
On September 8, Soyuz TM-6 was undocked from Mir's Kvant port and redocked onto the Mir Base Block's port.[3] 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 [edit]
| Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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| Commander |  Vladimir LyakhovMir EP-3 Third spaceflight |
Vladimir Titov Mir EO-3 Third spaceflight |
| Research Doctor/Flight Engineer | Valeri Polyakov Mir EO-3 / Mir EO-4 First spaceflight |
Musa Manarov Mir EO-3 First spaceflight |
| Research Cosmonaut |  Abdul MohmandMir EP-3 First spaceflight |
 Jean-Loup ChrétienMir Aragatz Second spaceflight |
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 [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ a b "Mir EO-3". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
- ^ The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM-6.htm
- ^ D.F.S.Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage". Retrieved 15 November 2010.
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