Soyuz TM-21
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| Mission name | Soyuz TM-21 | ||||
| Crew size | 3 launched / 2 landed | ||||
| Call sign | Урага́н (Uragan - Hurricane) | ||||
| Launch date | March 14, 1995 06:11:34 UTC Gagarin's Start |
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| Landing | September 11, 1995 06:52:40 UTC 108 km NE of Arkalyk (50.67 N; 68.25 E) |
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| Mission duration | 181 days 00 hours 41 minutes 06 seconds | ||||
| Number of orbits | ~2,940 | ||||
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Soyuz TM-21 was Soyuz mission, a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to the Russian space station Mir. Part of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, the mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, atop a Soyuz carrier rocket, at 06:11:34 UTC on March 14, 1995. It is of note because its launch marked the presence, for the first time ever, of thirteen humans in space simultaneously - three aboard the Soyuz, three aboard Mir and seven aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, flying STS-67.
The spacecraft carried expedition EO-18 to the space station, including the first American astronaut to launch on a Soyuz spacecraft and board Mir, Norman Thagard, for the American Thagard Increment aboard the station, the first Increment of the Shuttle-Mir program. The three crew members it launched were relieved by Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-71, when they were replaced by expedition EO-19, who returned to earth aboard Soyuz TM-21 on September 11, 1995.
[edit] Crew
Launched:
- Vladimir Dezhurov (1) Commander -
Russia - Gennady Strekalov (5) Flight Engineer - Russia
- Norman Thagard (5) Research Astronaut -
United States
Landed:
- Anatoly Solovyev (4) Commander - Russia
- Nikolai Budarin (1) Flight Engineer - Russia
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 7150 kg
- Perigee: 201 km
- Apogee: 247 km
- Inclination: 51.65°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
- First Mir docking: March 16, 1995, 07:45:26 UTC
- First Mir undocking: July 4 1995, 10:55 UTC
- Second Mir docking: July 4 1995, 11:39 UTC
- Second Mir undocking: September 11 1995, 03:30:44 UTC
[edit] References
- Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TM-21. Spacefacts.de (February 19, 2007). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
- Soyuz TM-21. Encyclopaedia Astronautica (March 12, 2001). Retrieved on 2007-04-09.
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