Soyuz TM-28

Altair

Russia

Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	13.08.1998
Launch time:	09:43 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	190 - 237,7 km
Inclination:	50,64°
Docking MIR:	15.08.1998, 10:56:54 UTC
Undocking MIR:	27.02.1999, 22:55:11 UTC
Landing time:	28.02.1999
Landing date:	02:14 UTC
Landing site:	50° 42' N, 67° 12' E

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Padalka	Gennadi Ivanovich	Commander	1	198d 16h 31m	3144
2	Avdeyev	Sergei Vasiliyevich	Flight Engineer	3	379d 14h 52m	6007
3	Baturin	Yuri Mikhailovich	Research Cosmonaut	1	11d 19h 41m	186

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Padalka
2	Avdeyev
3	Baturin

Landing
1	Padalka
2	Bella
3

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Zalyotin	Sergei Viktorovich	Commander
2	Kaleri	Aleksandr Yuriyevich	Flight Engineer
3	Kotov	Oleg Valeriyevich	Research Cosmonaut

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Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing of Padalka and Bella (launched with Soyuz TM-29) 59 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR space station on 15.08.1998. Padalka and Avdeyev became the 26th resident crew of MIR. Baturin, the first Russian politician in space, performed an inspection mission.

Padalka and Avdeyev performed an EVA on 15.09.1998 (30m) into the module Spektr. They connected new cabels for the solar structures.