Soyuz TM-25
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| Mission Statistics | |
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-25 |
| Call Sign: | Си́риус (Sirius) |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 launched / 2 landed |
| Launch: | February 10, 1997 14:09:30 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | August 14, 1997 12:17:10 UTC 170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 184 days 22 hours 07 minutes 40 seconds |
| Number of Orbits: | ~2,950 |
Crew
Launched:
- Vasili Tsibliyev (2)
- Aleksandr Lazutkin (1)
- Reinhold Ewald (1) - ESA (Germany)
Landed:
- Vasili Tsibliyev (2)
- Aleksandr Lazutkin (1)
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 7150 kg
- Perigee: 378 km
- Apogee: 394 km
- Inclination: 51.65°
- Period: 90.28 minutes
Mission Highlights
30th expedition to Mir. Included ESA astronaut from Germany.
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
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