Soyuz TM-15

Rodnik

Russia

Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	27.07.1992
Launch time:	06:08 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	350 km
Inclination:	51,6°
Docking MIR:	29.07.1992, 07:46 UTC
Undocking MIR:	01.02.1993, 00:26 UTC
Landing date:	01.02.1993
Landing time:	03:49 UTC
Landing site:	100 km NW of Arkalyk

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Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Soloviyov	Anatoli Yakovlevich	Commander	3	188d 21h 41m	2989
2	Avdeyev	Sergei Vasiliyevich	Flight Engineer	1	188d 21h 41m	2989
3	Tognini	Michel Ange-Charles	Research Cosmonaut	1	13d 18h 56m	218

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Soloviyov
2	Avdeyev
3	Tognini

Landing
1	Soloviyov
2	Avdeyev
3

Animations: Soyuz


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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Manakov	Gennadi Mikhailovich	Commander
2	Poleshchuk	Aleksandr Fyodorovich	Flight Engineer
3	Haigneré	Jean-Pierre	Research Cosmonaut

Flight

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.