Soyuz TM-2

This article is for the spacecraft Soyuz TM-2. For the expedition which is launched, see Mir EO-2.

Soyuz TM-2

Mission statistics

Mission name

Soyuz TM-2

Crew size

2 launched, 3 landed

Call sign

Taimyr

Launch date

21:38:16, February 5, 1987 (UTC)^[1]
Gagarin's Start

Landing

01:04:12, July 30, 1987 (UTC)^[2]
80 km from Arkalyk

Mission duration

174 days, 3 h, 25 min, 56 s

Number of orbits

~2,810

Related missions

Previous mission	Subsequent mission
Soyuz T-15	Soyuz TM-3

Soyuz TM-2 was the spacecraft used to launch a long duration crew to the Soviet space station Mir, which was unmanned at the time. TM-2 was launched in February 1987, and it was first manned spaceflight of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft,^[3] and the second manned spaceflight to Mir (the first being Soyuz T-15). The crew of the long duration expedition, Mir EO-2, who were launched by TM-2 consisted of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin.

The spacecraft remained docked to Mir, functioning as a lifeboat for the EO-2 crew, until July 1987 when it returned to Earth carrying Laveykin and the two man crew of Mir EP-1. Romanenko later returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-3 at the end of EO-2.

1 Crew
2 Mission parameters
3 Mission highlights
4 References

Crew

Position	Launching Crew	Landing Crew
Commander	Yuri Romanenko Mir EO-2 Third spaceflight	Aleksandr Viktorenko Mir EP-1 First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Aleksandr Laveykin Mir EO-2 First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	None	Muhammed Faris Mir EP-1 First spaceflight

Mission parameters

Mass: 7100 kg
Perigee: 341 km
Apogee: 365 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Period: 91.6 minutes

Mission highlights

Main article: Mir EO-2

Early in the expedition EO-2, the module Kvant-1 was launched to automatically dock with Mir. The docking system, known as the "Igla system", was not behaving as expected. On April 5 the EO-2 crew retreated to the Soyuz TM-2 spacecraft so that they could escape in the event the module got out of control. About 200 m out, the docking system lost its lock on Mir’s aft port antenna. The cosmonauts watched from within Soyuz-TM 2 as the Kvant/ FSM combination passed within 10 m of the station.^[1] Following an emergency spacewalk, Kvant fully docked to the station on April 11.

References

^ ^a ^b "Mir EO-2". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mireo2.htm. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
^ "Mir EP-1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mirep1.htm. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
^ "Soyuz TM". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/soyuztm.htm. Retrieved 11 November 2010.

Soyuz programme

Soyuz 7K-OK (1967–1971)	1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	10 11

Soyuz 7K-T (1973–1981)	12 13 14 15 17 18a 18 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	16 19 22

Soyuz-T (1976–1986)	T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8 T-9 T-10-1 T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15

Soyuz-TM (1986–2003)	TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34

Soyuz-TMA (2003–2012)	TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21

Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–)	TMA-01M TMA-02M

Current	TMA-22 TMA-03M

Planned	TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M

Unmanned	Kosmos 133 Kosmos 140 Kosmos 186 Kosmos 188 Kosmos 212 Kosmos 213 Kosmos 238 Soyuz 2 Kosmos 379 Kosmos 396 Kosmos 398 Kosmos 434 Kosmos 496 Kosmos 573 Kosmos 613 Kosmos 638 Kosmos 656 Kosmos 670 Kosmos 672 Kosmos 772 Soyuz 20 Kosmos 869 Kosmos 1001 Kosmos 1074 Soyuz T-1 Soyuz TM-1

Human spaceflights to Mir

Soyuz T-15 Soyuz TM-2 Soyuz TM-3 Soyuz TM-4 Soyuz TM-5 Soyuz TM-6 Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz TM-8 Soyuz TM-9 Soyuz TM-10 Soyuz TM-11 Soyuz TM-12 Soyuz TM-13 Soyuz TM-14 Soyuz TM-15 Soyuz TM-16 Soyuz TM-17 Soyuz TM-18 Soyuz TM-19 Soyuz TM-20 STS-63 Soyuz TM-21 STS-71 Soyuz TM-22 STS-74 Soyuz TM-23 STS-76 Soyuz TM-24 STS-79 STS-81 Soyuz TM-25 STS-84 Soyuz TM-26 STS-86 STS-89 Soyuz TM-27 STS-91 Soyuz TM-28 Soyuz TM-29 Soyuz TM-30

Soyuz TM-2

Contents

Crew

Mission parameters

Mission highlights

References