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| Soyuz TM-2 (7K-STM #52) |
February 5, 1987 (21:38 GMT) |
July 30, 1987 (01:04 GMT) |
Commander: Yuri Romanenko (3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 5) (Down - Soyuz TM-3) (326 days 11 hours 18 minutes) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 341 km Apogee: 365 km Inclination: 51.6° 2,755 orbits 3 spacewalks |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
80 km NE of Arkalyk (51° N, 65° E) |
Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Laveykin (1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 4) |
USSR | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 |
Docked with Mir February 7, 1987 (23:27 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir July 29, 1987 (20:44 GMT) |
1st Backup Crew: Vladimir Titov | USSR | M | Time 174 days 3 hours 25 minutes |
| 1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Serebrov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Aleksandr Volkov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Sergei Yemelyanov | USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 10 |
February 16, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (12th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 28 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (12th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 11 |
February 25, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (13th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 19 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (13th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 7 |
March 29, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (5th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 2 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (5th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Taxi Test 8 |
March 30, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (6th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 25 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (6th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Kvant 1 (37KE #010) |
March 31, 1987 (06:16 GMT) |
March 23, 2001 (05:59 GMT) |
Kvant 1 (Mir space station module) |
USSR | Perigee: 277 km Apogee: 320 km Inclination: 51.6° 79,741 orbits |
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| Launch Vehicle Proton-K #336-01 |
Site-200L (Launch Pad 39) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Hard-docked with Mir April 11, 1987 (20:18 GMT) |
Soft-docked with Mir's aft port April 9, 1987 (00:35 GMT) |
Time 5,106 days 5 hours |
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| Buran Analogue Flight 12 |
May 21, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Anatoli Levchenko (7th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 20 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (7th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 13 |
June 25, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Rimantas Stankyavichus (14th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 19 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (14th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-3 (7K-STM #53) |
July 22, 1987 (01:59 GMT) |
December 29, 1987 (09:16 GMT) |
Commander: Aleksandr Viktorenko (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 7) (Down - Soyuz TM-2) (7 days 23 hours 5 minutes) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 297 km Apogee: 353 km Inclination: 51.6° 2,537 orbits |
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
140 km NE of Arkalyk (51° N, 68° E) |
Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov (2nd Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 4) |
USSR | M | ||
| Docked with Mir July 24, 1987 (03:31 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir December 29, 1987 (05:58 GMT) |
Researcher: Muhammed Faris (1st Flight) (Syrian Cosmonaut) (Down - Soyuz TM-2) (7 days 23 hours 5 minutes) |
Syria | M | ||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 |
Port Relocation July 30, 1987 (23:27 GMT - 23:47 GMT) |
Backup Crew: Vladimir Soloviyov | USSR | M | Time 160 days 7 hours 16 minutes |
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| Backup Crew: Viktor Savinkyh | USSR | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Munir Habib | Syria | M | ||||
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| Buran Analogue Flight 14 |
October 5, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Aleksandr Shchukin (8th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Automatic Landing | |
| Test Pilot: Igor Volk (15th Buran Analogue Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 21 minutes |
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| Buran Analogue Flight 15 |
October 15, 1987 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Union |
Test Pilot: Ivan Bachurin (1st Buran Analogue Flight) (GKNII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Time 19 minutes |
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| Test Pilot: Aleksei Boroday (1st Buran Analogue Flight) (GKNII Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
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| Soyuz TM-4 (7K-STM #54) |
December 21, 1987 (11:18 GMT) |
June 17, 1988 (10:12 GMT) |
Commander: Vladimir Titov (2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 6) (Down - Soyuz TM-6) (365 days 22 hours 38 minutes) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 337 km Apogee: 357 km Inclination: 51.6° Crew: 5,790 orbits 3 spacewalks |
| Flight Engineer: Musa Manarov (1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 4) (Down - Soyuz TM-6) (365 days 22 hours 38 minutes) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
180 km SE of Dzhezkazgan (46° N, 69° E) |
Research Engineer: Anatoli Levchenko (1st Orbital Flight) (LII Detachment - Group 1) (Down - Soyuz TM-3) (7 days 21 hours 58 minutes) |
USSR | M | ||
| Docked with Mir December 23, 1987 (12:51 GMT) |
Undocked from Mir June 17, 1988 (06:20 GMT) |
1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Volkov | USSR | M | Time 178 days 22 hours 54 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Kaleri | USSR | M | ||||
| 1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Shchukin | USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U2 |
Port Relocation December 30, 1987 (09:09 GMT - 09:28 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Vladimir Lyakhov | USSR | M | ||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Andrei Zaytsev | USSR | M | ||||
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