Soyuz TM-29

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Mission: Soyuz TM-29
COSPAR-ID : 1999-007A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-ST ( GRAY index  11F732)
serial number 78
Dimensions: 7150 kg
Launcher: Soyuz U (GRAY index 11A511U)
Call sign: Дербе́нт (" Derbent ")
Crew: 3
Begin: February 20, 1999, 04:18:01  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: Me
Coupling: February 22, 1999, 05:36:16 UTC
Decoupling: August 27, 1999, 21:17:01 UTC
Landing: August 28, 1999, 12:34:20 UTC
Landing place: 70 km of NO Arkalik
50 ° 32 '  N , 67 ° 9'  O
Flight duration: 188d 20h 16min 19s
Earth orbits: 2988
Rotation time : 88.6 min
Apogee : 240.9 km
Perigee : 193.4 km
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TM-28
(manned) 		Soyuz TM-30
(manned)

Soyuz TM-29 is the mission name for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the Russian Mir space station . The 38th manned visit by a spaceship to the Mir space station was the 29th visit by a Soyuz spaceship and the 105th flight in the Soyuz program.

crew

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Substitute team

Return crew

  • Viktor Michailowitsch Afanassjew (3rd space flight), commander
  • Sergei Wassiljewitsch Avdejew (3rd space flight), flight engineer
  • Jean-Pierre Haigneré (2nd space flight), flight engineer ( CNES / France )Center national d'études spatialesCNES FranceFrance 

Mission overview

The Soyuz spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with a Soyuz 11A511U rocket. The commander Afanassiev was the only Russian spaceman on board, as two of the three seats were rented to other nations (France and Slovakia). This meant that the flight engineer Sergei Avdejew on board the Mir had to stay twice as long. After the return of the commander of the regular crew EO-26, Gennadi Padalka , and the Slovak cosmonaut Ivan Bella with Soyuz TM-28 , the new Mir crew EO-27 consisted of Viktor Afanassjew, Sergei Avdejew and the French Jean-Pierre Haigneré.

When Soyuz TM-29 landed on August 28, 1999, an almost ten-year era of space travel came to an end, during which at least one spacecraft crew had been in space since September 5, 1989.

Avdejew had spent 379 days in space. Only Valery Polyakov's 437-day stay on board the Mir in 1994/95 was longer. Together with his two other space flights, Avdejew achieved a time of 747 days in space. This record was only broken in 2005 by Sergei Krikalev .

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