Soyuz TM-19

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz TM-19
COSPAR-ID : 1994-036A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-ST ( GRAY index  11F732)
serial number 68
Dimensions: 7150 kg
Launcher: Soyuz U2 (GRAY index 11A511U2)
Call sign: Ага́т ( agate - " agate ")
Crew: 2 started
3 landed
Begin: July 1, 1994, 12:24:50  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: Me
Coupling: July 3, 1994, 13:55:01 UTC
Decoupling: November 4, 1994, 08:31:30 UTC
Landing: November 4, 1994, 11:18:26 UTC
Landing place: 88 km of NO Arkalik
50 ° 54 '  N , 67 ° 36'  O
Flight duration: 125d 22h 53min 36s
Earth orbits: 1993
Rotation time : 88.5 min
Apogee : 222 km
Perigee : 202 km
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TM-18
(manned) 		Soyuz TM-20
(manned)

Soyuz TM-19 was the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the Russian Mir space station . It was the 19th visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the Mir space station and the 95th flight in the Russian Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

This was the first Soviet space flight in 17 years ( Soyuz 25 ) in which no crew member had previously been in space.

Substitute team

Return team

  • Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (1st space flight), commander
  • Talghat Mussabaev (1st space flight), flight engineer ( Kazakhstan )KazakhstanKazakhstan 
  • Ulf Merbold (3rd space flight), science astronaut ( ESA / Germany )European space agencyESA GermanyGermany 

Mission overview

The crew of Soyuz TM-19 was strengthened by one crew member by taking over the doctor Valeri Polyakov. Polyakov lived and worked in weightlessness for a total of 14 months. In addition to the continuation of the medical examinations on the blood circulation, the immune system, the muscle and bone tissue, material science experiments (metal alloys, semiconductors ) and maintenance work were the focus of the four-month mission. With two exits, on September 9th for five hours and four minutes and on September 13th for six hours and one minute, Malenchenko and Musabaev repaired the thermal insulation of the station and moved the solar panels from the crystal module to the Kwant module . This relocation should make it easier for the American space shuttle to dock . Material and supplies had previously arrived with the Progress M-24 transport spacecraft.

Further scientific experiments were carried out in the fields of earth exploration, astrophysics and biotechnology. Soyuz TM-19 returned to earth with Ulf Merbold, who arrived at the station in October with Soyuz TM 20, while Valeri Polyakov was taken over by the new crew.

The landing module has been in the Technik Museum Speyer since May 3, 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soyuz capsule arrived in Speyer. Morgenweb, May 3, 2010, archived from the original on May 7, 2010 ; Retrieved May 3, 2010 .

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