Soyuz TM-7

Donbass

USSR

Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	26.11.1988
Launch time:	15:49 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	350 km
Inclination:	51,6°
Docking MIR:	28.11.1988, 17:15:00 UTC
Undocking MIR:	26.04.1989, 23:28:01 UTC
Landing date:	27.04.1989
Landing time:	02:57 UTC
Landing site:	140 km NE of Dzheskasgan

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Volkov	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich	Commander	2	151d 11h 08m	2396
2	Krikalyov	Sergei Konstantinovich	Flight Engineer	1	151d 11h 08m	2396
3	Chrétien	Jean-Loup Jacques Marie	Research Cosmonaut	2	24d 18h 07m	395

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Volkov
2	Krikalyov
3	Chrétien

Landing
1	Volkov
2	Krikalyov
3	Polyakov

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Viktorenko	Aleksandr Stepanovich	Commander
2	Serebrov	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich	Flight Engineer
3	Tognini	Michel Ange-Charles	Research Cosmonaut

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Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 140 km northeast of Dzheskasgan.

The original launch date November 21, 1988 was moved back to permit French president François Mitterrand to attend the launch.

It was the second joined mission USSR - France. Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR-Kvant-complex on 28.11.1988. Scientific work with third resident crew was done. Volkov and Krikalyov together with Polyakov became the fourth resident crew. EVA by Volkov and Chrétien on 09.12.1988 (5h 57m), installing the 240 kg French ERA experimental deployable structure and a panel of material samples. Chrétien became the first non-American and non Soviet cosmonaut to perform a spacewalk.

During this mission experiments in 16 different fields were performed as topografic and spectrografic research of the Earth surface, biological and medical research (incl. blood and heart tests).