Soyuz TM-13

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**Soyuz TM-13**
Mission Statistics
Mission Name:	Soyuz TM-13
Call Sign:	Донба́сс (Donbass)
Number of Crew Members:	3
Launch:	October 2, 1991 05:59:38 UTC Baikonur LC1
Landing:	March 25, 1992 08:51:22 UTC near Dzhezkazgan
Duration:	175 days 02 hours 51 minutes 44 seconds
Number of Orbits:	~2,730

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[edit] Mission parameters

Mass: 7150 kg
Perigee: 195 km
Apogee: 232 km
Inclination: 51.7°
Period: 92.4 minutes

[edit] Mission highlights

13th expedition to Mir. Included astronaut from Austria and cosmonaut from soon to be independent Kazakhstan.

Soyuz-TM 13 carried Austrian cosmonaut-researcher Franz Viehböck and still Soviet-Kazakh cosmonaut-researcher Toktar Aubakirov. The flight was unusual for carrying no flight engineer. Veteran Russian cosmonaut Alexandr Volkov commanded. The Austrians paid $7 million to fly Viehböck to Mir, and the Kazakh cosmonaut flew partly in an effort to encourage newly independent Kazakhstan to continue to permit launchings from Baikonur Cosmodrome. The cosmonaut-researchers photographed their respective countries from orbit and conducted the usual range of materials processing and medical experiments. Artsebarsky traded places with Volkov and returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-12.

Spent 175 days docked to Mir. Krikalev launched from the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR, and landed in independent Kazakhstan.

Manned spaceflights to Mir