Soyuz TM-28
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Soyuz TM-28 | |
Mission insignia Image:Soyuztm28.jpg |
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Mission name | Soyuz TM-28 |
Spacecraft name | Soyuz TM-28 |
Crew size | 3 |
Call sign | Альтаи́р (Altair) |
Launch date | August 13, 1998 09:43:11 UT Gagarin's Start |
Landing | February 28, 1999 02:14:30 UT 100 km south of Kijma |
Mission duration | 198 days, 16 h, 31 min, 19 s |
Number of orbits | 3144 |
TM-28 was a Soyuz mission to the Mir space station.
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[edit] Crew
Launched:
- 1 Gennady Padalka (1) - Commander
- 2 Sergei Avdeyev (3) - Flight Engineer
- 3 Yuri Baturin (1) - Research Cosmonaut
Landed:
- 1 Gennady Padalka (1) - Commander
- 2 Ivan Bella (1) - Flight Engineer - Slovakia
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: ? kg
- Perigee: 190 km
- Apogee: 237.7 km
- Inclination: 51.64°
- Period: 88.5 min
[edit] Mission Accomplishments
- Docked with Mir
- Baturin is first Russian politician in space
- Padalka and Avdeyev performed an EVA on 15.09.1998 (30 m) into the module Spektr (new cabels connected for solar structures).
[edit] Notes
- Padalka and Avdeyev became 26th resident crew of MIR.
- Baturin landed on August 25, 1998 (5:22 UT) with Soyuz TM-27.
- Avdeyev landed on August 28, 1999 (0:41 UT) with Soyuz TM-29.
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