MIR ’97

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 30^th 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.