Soyuz TM-25

Soyuz TM-25
Mission insignia
Mission statistics
Mission name Soyuz TM-25
Spacecraft mass 7150 kg
Crew size 3 launched / 2 landed
Call sign Си́риус (Sirius)
Launch date February 10, 1997
14:09:30 UTC
Gagarin's Start
Landing August 14, 1997
12:17:10 UTC
170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
Mission duration 184 days, 22 hours, 07 minutes, 40 seconds
Number of orbits ~2,950
Apogee 394 km
Perigee 378 km
Orbital period 90.28 minutes
Orbital inclination 51.56°
Related missions
Previous mission Subsequent mission
Soyuz TM-24 Soyuz TM-26

Crew

Position Launching Crew Landing Crew
Commander  Vasili Tsibliyev
Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer  Aleksandr Lazutkin
First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut  Reinhold Ewald
First spaceflight
None

Mission highlights

This was the 30th expedition to Mir. An ESA astronaut from Germany was included on the mission.

Soyuz TM-25 is a Russian spacecraft that was launched to carry astronauts and supplies to Mir station. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baykonur cosmodrome at 14:09 UT to ferry three cosmonauts for a 162-day stay at the station; it docked with the station at 15:51 UT on 12 February 97. Within meters of automatic approach to the station, a slight misalignment was noted, and the commander of the module had to dock it by manual steering.