Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TM-14

Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 145 Soyuz TM-14 Vityaz Russia
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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	17.03.1992
Launch time:	10:54 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	350 km
Inclination:	51,6°
Docking MIR:	19.03.1992, 12:32:50 UTC
Undocking MIR:	09.08.1992, 21:46:47 UTC
Landing date:	10.08.1992
Landing time:	01:05 UTC
Landing site:	47° 25' N, 69° 21' E

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Viktorenko	Aleksandr Stepanovich	Commander	3	145d 14h 10m	2303
2	Kaleri	Aleksandr Yuriyevich	Flight Engineer	1	145d 14h 10m	2303
3	Flade	Klaus-Dietrich	Research Cosmonaut	1	7d 21h 57m	124

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Viktorenko
2	Kaleri
3	Flade

Landing
1	Viktorenko
2	Kaleri
3	Tognini

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Soloviyov	Anatoli Yakovlevich	Commander
2	Avdeyev	Sergei Vasiliyevich	Flight Engineer
3	Ewald	Reinhold	Research Cosmonaut

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Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 136 km east of Dzheskasgan. It was the mission MIR`92.

Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the Soyuz TM-13-Kvant1-MIR-Kristall-Kvant2 complex on 19.03.1992. As part of the MIR`92 program Klaus-Dietrich Flade was involved in 14 German medical, biological, physical and materials science scientific experiments with the tenth MIR resident crew.

Main goal of the mission was to exchange the resident crew. Viktorenko and Kaleri became the eleventh resident crew. It was the first mission after the disolution of the USSR and the first Russian spaceflight. In addition it was the first joined spaceflight Russia-Germany. Viktorenko and Kaleri performed an EVA on 08.07.1992 (2h 03m), inspecting gyrodyne orientation flywheels.