Soyuz TM-5

Soyuz TM-5
COSPAR ID1988-048A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.19204
Mission duration91 days, 10 hours, 46 minutes, 25 seconds[1]
Orbits completed~1,475
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-STM No. 55
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TM
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Launch mass7,000 kilograms (15,000 lb)
Crew
Crew size3 up
2 down
LaunchingAnatoly Solovyev
Viktor Savinykh
Aleksandr Aleksandrov
LandingVladimir Lyakhov
Abdul Ahad Mohmand
CallsignРодни́к (Rodnik- Spring)
Start of mission
Launch date7 June 1988, 14:03:13 (1988-06-07UTC14:03:13Z) UTC[1]
RocketSoyuz-U2
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date7 September 1988, 00:49:38 (1988-09-07UTC00:49:39Z) UTC
Landing site202 kilometres (126 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude173 kilometres (107 mi)
Apogee altitude241 kilometres (150 mi)
Inclination~51.6 degrees
Period88.6 minutes
Docking with Mir[2]
Docking date9 June 1988, 15:57:10 UTC
Undocking date5 September 1988, 23:54:57 UTC
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz TM-5 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir. It was launched on June 7, 1988, carrying the Mir EP-2 mission's three-person crew. This week-long stay on Mir occurred during the third long-duration Mir expedition, Mir EO-3. The crew of EP-2 returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-4, while the TM-5 spacecraft remained docked to Mir, acting as the lifeboat for the long-duration crew. On September 7, 1988, the TM-5 spacecraft undocked from Mir, and landed Mir EP-3 mission's two-person visiting crew. The de-orbit procedures for Soyuz were revised after this flight, as multiple issues almost prevented the descent module's safe de-orbit and landing.

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  2. ^ "Soyuz TM-5". Spacefacts.de. Retrieved 21 March 2021.