Resident Crews of the MIR
MIR: Expedition 12
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Crew, launch- and landing data
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| Surname: | Soloviyov | Avdeyev |
| Given names: | Anatoli Yakovlevich | Sergei Vasiliyevich |
| Position: | Commander | Flight Engineer |
| Spacecraft (Launch): | Soyuz TM-15 | Soyuz TM-15 |
| Launch date: | 27.07.1992 | 27.07.1992 |
| Launchtime: | 06:08 UTC | 06:08 UTC |
| Spacecraft (Landing): | Soyuz TM-15 | Soyuz TM-15 |
| Landingdate: | 01.02.1993 | 01.02.1993 |
| Landingtime: | 03:49 UTC | 03:49 UTC |
| Mission duration: | 188d 21h 41m | 188d 21h 41m |
| Orbits: | 2989 | 2989 |
Backup Crew
| No.: | 1 | 2 |
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| Surname: | Manakov | Poleshchuk |
| Given names: | Gennadi Mikhailovich | Aleksandr Fyodorovich |
| Position: | Commander | Flight Engineer |
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Expedition Report
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Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
100 km northwest of Arkalyk. Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR space station on 29.07.1992. First there have been joint work with the eleventh resident crew. Soloviyov and Avdeyev became then the twelfth MIR resident crew During the French MIR Antares mission, which lasted two weeks, 11 experiments were performed in the fields of technology, physics and medicine. The experiments included crystal growth experiments, fluid dynamics experiments. Both cosmonauts performed four EVAs on 03.09.1992 (3h 56m), 07.09.1992 (5h 08m), 11.09.1992 (5h 44m) and 15.09.1992 (3h 33m), to install the VDU thruster pod on the Sofora girder and to install the Kurs docking system antenna on the Kristall module. |
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