Soyuz TM-13

Soyuz TM-13
COSPAR ID1991-069A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.21735Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration175 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes, 44 seconds
Orbits completed~2,730
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-STM No. 63
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TM
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Launch mass7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb)
Crew
Crew size3
MembersAlexander Volkov
LaunchingToktar Aubakirov
Franz Viehböck
LandingSergei Krikalev
Klaus-Dietrich Flade
CallsignДонба́сс (Donbass)
Start of mission
Launch date2 October 1991, 05:59:38 (1991-10-02UTC05:59:38Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U2
Launch siteBaikonur Cosmodrome
End of mission
Landing date25 March 1992, 08:51:22 (1992-03-25UTC08:51:23Z) UTC
Landing sitenear Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude195 kilometres (121 mi)
Apogee altitude232 kilometres (144 mi)
Inclination51.7 degrees
Period92.4 minutes
Docking with Mir
Docking date4 October 1991, 07:38:42 UTC
Undocking date25 March 1992, 05:29:03 UTC
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TM-13 was the 13th expedition to the Mir space station.[1] Launched from the Soviet Union in October 1991 and lasting until March 1992, the mission included cosmonauts from Austria and the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (Kazakh SSR), the latter of which became an independent state during the mission due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991. The launch ceremony at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakh SSR was attended by the Soviet Premier Ivan Silaev, the President of the Kazakh SSR Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the Chancellor of Austria Franz Vranitzky. Before the launch, for the first time, President Nazarbayev received the launch report from cosmonaut Tokhtar Aubakirov in the Kazakh language.[2]

  1. ^ The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-tm13.htm
  2. ^ "1991 год: как все начиналось | VOXPOPULI" (in Russian). 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2021-05-31.