Soyuz TM-6 was a crewed

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spaceflight to ''

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''.The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM6.htm It was launched on 29 August 1988, at 04:23:11 UTC, for the station's third long-duration expedition,

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. The three-person crew that was launched consisted of Research Doctor

Valeri Polyakov Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, russian: Валерий Иванович Коршунов, 27 April 1942 – 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Rus ...

, who became part of the EO-3 crew, as well as the two crew members of the week-long mission Mir EP-3, which included the first ever

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cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Mohmand. On September 8, Soyuz TM-6 was undocked from ''Mirs Kvant port and redocked onto the ''Mir'' Base Block's port. It remained there until December, when it brought Titov and Manarov of the EO-3 crew back to Earth. It also landed

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astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien, ending his 25-day-long spaceflight which started with

Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz TM-7 was a crewed Soyuz spaceflight to Mir.The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM7.htm It launched on 26 November 1988, at 15:49:34, and was the start of the fourth long duration expedition t ...

Crew

Valeri Polyakov remained behind on ''Mir'' with cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov when Mohmand and Lyakhov returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-5. The crew of Soyuz TM-6 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 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.

Mission parameters

Mass Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different ele ...

: 7070 kg *

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: 195 km *

Apogee An apsis (; ) is the farthest or nearest point in the orbit of a planetary body about its primary body. For example, the apsides of the Earth are called the aphelion and perihelion. General description There are two apsides in any el ...

: 228 km *

Inclination Orbital inclination measures the tilt of an object's orbit around a celestial body. It is expressed as the angle between a reference plane and the orbital plane or axis of direction of the orbiting object. For a satellite orbiting the Ea ...

: 51.6 ° *

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: 88.7

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References

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