Soyuz TM-22

Uran

Russia

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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	03.09.1995
Launch time:	09:00 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	199 - 236 km
Inclination:	51,64°
Docking MIR:	05.09.1995, 10:29:53 UTC
Undocking MIR:	29.02.1996, 07:20:06 UTC
Landing date:	29.02.1996
Landing time:	10:42 UTC
Landing site:	51° 18' N, 67° 27' E

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Gidzenko	Yuri Pavlovich	Commander	1	179d 01h 41m	2833
2	Avdeyev	Sergei Vasiliyevich	Flight Engineer	2	179d 01h 41m	2833
3	Reiter	Thomas Arthur	Flight Engineer	1	179d 01h 41m	2833

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Gidzenko
2	Avdeyev
3	Reiter

Landing
1	Gidzenko
2	Avdeyev
3	Reiter

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Manakov	Gennadi Mikhailovich	Commander
2	Vinogradov	Pavel Vladimirovich	Flight Engineer
3	Fuglesang	Arne Christer	Flight Engineer

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Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 105 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Soyuz TM-22 carried the the European mission "EUROMIR 95". Following a two day solo flight Soyuz TM-22 docked with the MIR space station on September 05, 1995. The crew became the 20th MIR resident crew. During the next months joint Russian-German research work were performed.

EVAs were performed by Sergei Avdeyev and Thomas Reiter (first German performing a spacewalk) on October 20, 1995 (5h 16m), by Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Avdeyev on December 08, 1995 (0h 29m) and Yuri Gidzenko and Thomas Reiter on February 08, 1996 (3h 05m). New instruments were installed to install and later retrieve cassettes of the European Space Exposure Facility experiments (ESEF).

The spaceflight took two month longer than planned due of missing money for the following mission. It was the longest space flight of a non Russian to date by Thomas Reiter.