Antares

Mission name: Soyuz TM-15

Call sign: Rodnik (Spring)

Number of crew members: 3 launched / 2 landed

Launch:

27 July 1992, 06:08:42 UTC, Baikonur

Landing:

1 February 1993, 03:49:57 UTC, near Dzhezkazgan

Duration: 188 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes, 15 seconds

Number of orbits: ~3 070

CREW

Launched

Anatoly Solovyev (3)
Sergei Avdeyev (1)
Michel Tognini (1) - France

Landed

Anatoly Solovyev (3)
Sergei Avdeyev (1)

(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission

MISSION HIGHLIGHTS

The 15th expedition to Mir included an astronaut from France. Michel Tognini, passenger aboard Soyuz TM-15, was the third Frenchman to visit a space station.

He conducted ten experiments using 300 kg of equipment delivered by Progress-M flights. Tognini spent 3 weeks in space as part of ongoing space cooperation between Russia and France.

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European astronauts in space

Name Country MissionSpacecraft Date Vladimír RemekCZInterkosmosSoyuz 28 / Salyut 602/03/78 - 10/03/78Mirosław HermaszewskiPLInterkosmosSoyuz 3027/06/78 - 05/07/78Sigmund JähnDEInterkosmosSoyuz 31 / Salyut 6 / Soyuz 2926/08/78 - 03/09/78Georgi IvanovBGInterkosmosSoyuz 3310/04/79 - 12/04/82Bertalan ...

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Michel Tognini

Personal dataBorn 30 September 1949, in Vincennes, France. Four children. Enjoys parachuting and parafoil, tennis, windsurfing, water-skiing, snow-skiing, cross-country running, wave-surfing, discus launch gliders and computers.

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