Soyuz TM-6
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| Mission Statistics | |
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz TM-6 |
| Call Sign: | Прото́н (Proton) |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | August 29, 1988 04:23:11 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | December 21, 1988 09:57:00 UTC 160 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 114 days 05 hours 33 minutes 49 seconds |
| Number of Orbits: | ~1,840 |
Crew
Launched:
- Vladimir Lyakhov (3)
- Valeri Polyakov (1)
- Abdul Ahad Mohmand (1) - Afghanistan
Landed:
- Vladimir Titov (3)
- Musa Manarov (1)
- Jean-Loup Chrétien (2) - France
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 7070 kg
- Perigee: 195 km
- Apogee: 228 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
Mission Highlights
6th expedition to Mir. Dr. Valeri Polyakov remained behind on Mir with cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov when Mohmand and Lyakhov returned to Earth in Soyuz-TM 5.
Its crew had a unique makeup, with a commander (Vladimir Lyakhov) who had been trained to fly a Soyuz-TM solo in the event a rescue ship needed to be sent to recover two cosmonauts from Mir, no flight engineer, and two inexperienced cosmonaut-researchers. One was Dr. Valeri Polyakov, who would remain aboard Mir with Titov and Manarov to monitor their health during the final months of their planned year-long stay. The other was Intercosmos cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, from Afghanistan. Mohmand’s experiment program was dominated by a series of observations of Afghanistan, called Shamshad. During return to Earth, Soyuz-TM 5 suffered a combined computer software and sensor problem, which delayed its reentry by 24 hr.
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