MIR ’97
MISSION STATISTICS
Mission name: Soyuz TM-25
Call sign: Sirius
Number of crew members: 3 launched / 2 landed
Launch:
10 February 1997, 14:09:30 UTC, Baikonur LC1
Landing:
14 August 1997, 12:17:10 UTC, 170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
Duration: 184 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, 40 seconds
Number of orbits: ~2 950
CREW
Launched
- Vasili Tsibliyev (2)
- Aleksandr Lazutkin (1)
- Reinhold Ewald (1) - ESA Germany
Landed
- Vasili Tsibliyev (2)
- Aleksandr Lazutkin (1)
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission
MISSION HIGHLIGHTS
This was the 30th expedition to Mir. The ESA astronaut Reinhold Ewald from Germany was included on the mission.
Soyuz TM-25 is a Russian spacecraft that was launched to carry astronauts and supplies to Mir station.
It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome at 14:09 UT to ferry three cosmonauts for a 162-day stay at the station; it docked with the station at 15:51 UT on 12 February 1997.
Within meters of automatic approach to the station, a slight misalignment was noted, and the commander of the module had to dock it by manual steering.