Soyuz TM-5

Mission emblem
Mission dates
Mission:	Soyuz TM-5
COSPAR-ID :	1988-048A
Spacecraft:	Soyuz 7K-ST ( GRAY index  11F732) serial number 55
Dimensions:	7000 kg
Launcher:	Soyuz U2 (GRAY index 11A511U2)
Call sign:	Родник (Rodnik - "source")
Crew:	3 started 2 landed
Begin:	June 7, 1988, 14:03:13  UTC
Starting place:	Baikonur 1/5
Space station:	Me
Coupling:	June 9, 1988, 15:57:10 UTC
Decoupling:	September 5, 1988, 23:54:57 UTC
Landing:	September 7, 1988, 12:49:38 UTC
Landing place:	202 km SE of Djeskazgan
Flight duration:	91d 10h 46m 25s
Earth orbits:	≈ 1475
Rotation time :	88.6 min
Apogee :	241 km
Perigee :	173 km
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz TM-4 (manned) Soyuz TM-6 (manned)

Soyuz TM-5 is the mission name for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet Mir space station . It was the fifth visit by a Soyuz spacecraft to the Mir space station and the 81st flight in the Soviet Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

• Anatoly Jakowlewitsch Solowjow (1st space flight), commander
• Viktor Petrovich Savinych (3rd space flight), flight engineer
• Alexandar Panaiotow Alexandrov (1st space flight), Bulgaria 

Substitute team

• Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Lyachow , commandant
• Alexander Alexandrovich Serebrov , flight engineer
• Krasimir Michailow Stoyanov , Bulgaria 

Serebrov only moved to the substitute team in March 1988 after the originally intended Andrei Yevgenyevich Saizew fell ill.

Return crew

• Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Lyachow (3rd space flight), commander
• Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1st space flight), flight engineer ( Afghanistan ) 

Mission overview

46 scientific experiments were part of the flight program on board the Mir space station. This included astrophysical and astronomical investigations (including with the Roshen facility), remote sensing of the earth, especially the coastal regions of the Black Sea , materials research, medicine and biology. Photo series and spectral analyzes were made of areas of Bulgaria. In addition, special alloys using aluminum, iron, tungsten and copper were tested and crystals were grown (experiment crystallizer). The cosmonauts landed on the Soyuz TM-4 spacecraft .

See also

• List of Soyuz missions
• List of manned space flights

Web links

• Soyuz TM-5 at spacefacts.de
• Soyuz TM-5 at space.kursknet.ru (English / Russian , archived 2016)
• Soyuz TM-5 in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
• Soyuz TM-5 in the NSSDCA Master Catalog (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Андрей Евгеньевич Зайцев. astronaut.ru, June 24, 2006, accessed April 22, 2009 (Russian).