Soyuz TM-27
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| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission Name: | International Flight-No. 202 |
| Call Sign: | Криста́лл (Kristall) |
| Spacecraft Name: | Soyuz TM-27 |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | January 29, 1998 16:33:42 UT Baikonur, Pad 1 |
| Landing: | August 25, 1998 05:24:44 UT 47° 57' 7 N, 39° 37' 50 E Near Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 207 days, 12 h, 51 min, 2 s |
| Number of Orbits: | 3284 |
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Crew
Launched:
- 1 Talgat Musabayev (2) - Commander
- 2 Nikolai Budarin (2) - Flight Engineer
- 3 Léopold Eyharts (1) - France - Research Cosmonaut
Landed:
- 1 Talgat Musabayev (2) - Commander
- 2 Nikolai Budarin (2) - Flight Engineer
- 3 Yuri Baturin (1) - Research Cosmonaut
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 7150 kg
- Perigee: 382 km
- Apogee: 390 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 92.1 min
Mission accomplishments
- Docked with Mir
- Exchange part of crew
- Carried out French mission PEGASE
- Conducted routine science experiments
EVA schedule
- 03.03.1998 aborted due to faulty hatch
- 01.04.1998 (6h 40m)
- 06.04.1998 (4h 23m)
- 11.04.1998 (6h 25m)
- 17.04.1998 (6h 32m)
- 22.04.1998 (6h 21m)
- Over the course of these 5 walks, the cosmonauts repaired the Spektr solar panel and installed a new VDU station orientation system.
Mission notes
Both cosmonauts and astronaut Andy Thomas (arrived on STS-89) became the 25th resident crew. Eyharts landed on 19.02.1998 with Soyuz TM-26-spacecraft. Included astronaut from France.
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