Soyuz TM-8
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This article is about the spacecraft. For the expedition which it launched, see Mir EO-5.
Soyuz TM-8 was a 1989 spaceflight which carried the fifth long duration crew to the Soviet space station Mir.[2] It was part of the Soyuz-TM series of spacecraft, which were the fourth generation of the Soviet Soyuz. Soyuz TM-8 was the eighth crewed spaceflight to Mir, and spent 166 days in orbit.
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COSPAR ID | 1989-071A |
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SATCAT no. | 20218 |
Mission duration | 166 days, 6 hours, 58 minutes, 15 seconds |
Orbits completed | ~2,680 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-STM No. 58 |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Aleksandr Viktorenko Aleksandr Serebrov |
Callsign | Ви́тязь (Vityaz - Knight) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 5 September 1989, 21:38:03 (1989-09-05UTC21:38:03Z) UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 19 February 1990, 04:36:18 (1990-02-19UTC04:36:19Z) UTC |
Landing site | 55 kilometres (34 mi) NE of Arkalyk[1] |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 390 kilometres (240 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 392 kilometres (244 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 92.4 minutes |
Docking with Mir | |
Docking date | 7 September 1989, 22:25:26: UTC |
Undocking date | 19 February 1990, 01:06:20 UTC |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
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