CREW
Launched
Talgat Musabayev (2) - Commander
Nikolai Budarin (2) - Flight Engineer
Léopold Eyharts (1) - Research Cosmonaut - France
Talgat Musabayev (2) - Commander
Nikolai Budarin (2) - Flight Engineer
Yuri Baturin (1) - Research Cosmonaut
MISSION HIGHLIGHTS
Docked with Mir
Exchange part of crew
Carried out French mission Pégase
Conducted routine science experiments
3 March 1998 (aborted due to faulty hatch)
1 April 1998 (6h 40m)
6 April 1998 (4h 23m)
11 April 1998 (6h 25m)
17 April 1998 (6h 32m)
22 Arpil 1998 (6h 21m)
The Pégase mission onboard the Russian Space Station Mir successfully took place from 29 January to 19 February 1998. During this Franco-Russian mission, Eyharts performed a number of experiments, thus completing the results of the Cassiopeia mission.
Eyharts landed on 19 February 1998 with Soyuz TM-26-spacecraft.
Launch from Baikonur; landing 40 km southeast of Dzheskasgan; docking on MIR spacestation; Musabayev and Budarin together with astronaut Andy Thomas became the 25th resident crew of MIR; French mission Pégase.
Common scientific experiments. A planned EVA of Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin at 3 March 1998 was cancelled, because the hatch could not be opened and all wrenches broke.
Later five EVA's by both cosmonauts on 1 April 1998 (6 hours 40 minutes), 6 April 1998 (4 hours 23 minutes), 11 April 1998 (6 hours 25 minutes), 17 April 1998 (6 hours 32 minutes), 22 April 1998 (6 hours 21 minutes), repairing the damaged Spektr solar panel and installing the new VDU station orientation engine into the Sofora boom.
