Soyuz TM-23

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TM-23
COSPAR-ID :	1996-011A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-ST ( GRAY index  11F732) serial number 72
Dimensions:	7150 kg
Launcher:	Soyuz U (GRAY index 11A511U)
Call sign:	Скиф (Ski - " Skythe ")
Crew:	2 started 3 landed
Begin:	February 21, 1996, 12:34:05  UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	Me
Coupling:	February 23, 1996, 14:20:35 UTC
Decoupling:	September 2, 1996, 04:20:00 UTC
Landing:	September 2, 1996, 07:41:40 UTC
Landing place:	107 km SW of Akmola 50 ° 17 '  N , 70 ° 50'  E
Flight duration:	193d 19h 7min 35s
Earth orbits:	3155
Rotation time :	88.6 min
Apogee :	240 km
Perigee :	202 km
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TM-22 (manned) Soyuz TM-24 (manned)

Soyuz TM-23 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the Russian Mir space station . The 25th visit by a spaceship to the Mir space station was the 23rd visit by a Soyuz spaceship and the 99th flight in the Russian Soyuz program. After Soyuz TM-22 , the American space shuttle Atlantis visited Mir with the STS-76 mission.

crew

Starting crew

• Yuri Ivanovich Onufrijenko (1st space flight), commander
• Yuri Wladimirowitsch Ussachev (2nd space flight), flight engineer

Substitute team

• Wassili Wassiljewitsch Ziblijew , Commander
• Alexander Ivanovich Lasutkin , flight engineer

Return crew

• Yuri Ivanovich Onufrijenko (1st space flight), commander
• Yuri Wladimirowitsch Ussachev (3rd space flight), flight engineer
• Claudie André-Deshays (1st space flight), science astronaut ( CNES / France )  

See also

• List of manned space flights
• List of Mir expeditions

Web links

• Soyuz TM-23 at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TM-23 at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TM-23 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TM-23 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)