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  Soyuz T-15 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soyuz T-15 was the first expedition to Mir.
The Mayaks loaded Soyuz T-15 with their personal belongings, plants grown on Mir, and other items in preparation for the trip to Salyut 7, which was about 4000 km ahead of Mir in a lower orbit.
Soyuz T-15 arrived at Mir with a cargo of 350- 400 kg of instruments from Salyut 7.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soyuz_T-15   (545 words)

  
 History - The Flight of Apollo-Soyuz
Its purpose was to enable a docking between the dissimilar Soyuz spacecraft and the U.S. Apollo.
Soyuz Launch: Soyuz 19, carrying cosmonauts Aleksey A. Leonov and Valery N. Kubasov, was launched into sunny skies from Baykonur Cosmodrome at 5:20 pm local time (8:20 am EDT) July 15, 1975.
Soyuz Orbit and Landing: Soyuz 19 remained in orbit nearly 30 hrs after the undocking.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/apollo/apsoyhist.html   (2545 words)

  
 Soyuz TM
Soyuz TM-21 again undocked with the EO-19 crew on September 11 from the Kvant rear port on Mir and landed at 50 deg 41'N 68 deg 15'E, 108 km northeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan, at 06:52:40 GMT.
Soyuz TM-31, with Shepherd, Gidzenko and Krikalyov aboard, undocked from the -Y port on Zvezda on February 24, 2001 at 1006 GMT and redocked with the -Z port on Zarya at 1037 GMT.
After the departure of the Progress, Soyuz TM-31 undocked from the Zarya nadir port April 18 2001 at 1240 GMT and redocked with the Zvezda aft port at 1301 GMT, leaving clearance for the Raffaello MPLM module to be berthed at the Unity nadir during the STS-100 mission.
www.astronautix.com /craft/soyuztm.htm   (3765 words)

  
 Planetarium.Net Soyuz - Human Spaceflight Timeline
Soyuz 2 was an unmanned craft launched in to orbit for testing and rendezvous with another flight.
Soyuz TM craft still ferry crews and supplies to and from the Mir Space Station.
A Soyuz TM capsule is always attached to the Mir in the event an emergency escape becomes necessary.
www.planetarium.net /edcenter/human/soyuz.htm   (468 words)

  
 1993 - Russia and Piloted Space Missions
As Soyuz TM-16 approached to within 150m of the Mir space station on the morning of 26 January Manakov and Poleshchok disengaged the automatic rendezvous and docking system to assume manual control during the final few minutes.
The Soyuz TM-15 post-mission review highlighted the achievements of the twelfth expedition which included four spacewalks (three for the installation of an attitude control unit on the Sofora girder) and experiments in a wide range of scientific disciplines.
Lift-off occurred on schedule in the afternoon of 1 July, and a normal two-day rendezvous brought the Soyuz TM-17 spacecraft to the vicinity of the Mir complex on 3 July (References 143-147).
www.fas.org /spp/guide/russia/piloted/1993.htm   (3288 words)

  
 Soyuz 15
Soyuz 15 was to conduct the second phase of manned operations aboard the Salyut 3 military space station, but the Igla rendezvous system failed and no docking was made.
Therefore the planned Soyuz 16 spacecraft became excess to the program (it was later flown as Soyuz 20 to a civilian Salyut station, even though over its two year rated storage life).
Kamanin attends a reunion of cosmonauts on the occasion of the arrival of the Soyuz 15 crew at Chkalovsky Airfield.
www.astronautix.com /flights/soyuz15.htm   (720 words)

  
 Soyuz
After the self-destruction of the first Soyuz 7K-OK on re-entry, and the loss of the second one on the pad fire in December, the state commission ruled that the third 7K-OK model would be flown unpiloted on a solo mission.
The Soyuz 2 crew were given the order to rendezvous with Soyuz 1 and to try during the planned EVA to unfold the undeployed solar panel.
The drop of the Soyuz 1 mock-up at Fedosiya was cancelled due to the great likelihood of loss of the spacecraft and the low likelihood of obtaining any new data as a result.
www.astronautix.com /project/soyuz.htm   (19439 words)

  
 Soyuz 11
Soyuz 11 is on the launch pad, and which crew will fly is still being argued.
The Salyut station is much more comfortable than the Soyuz, but the mission has revealed it needs many improvements, including: a unit for ejecting liquids from the station; solar panels, and scientific instruments, that can be automatically pointed at the sun or their target and stabilised; an improved control section; better crew rest provisions.
The Soyuz 11 crew is buried in the Kremlin Wall in a State Funeral at Red Square.
www.astronautix.com /flights/soyuz11.htm   (10399 words)

  
 A Visit to Baikonur
Two of the Soyuz TM-15 cosmonauts, Anatoly Solovyov and Sergei Avdeyev, were flying Soyuz TM-15 to the six-year-old Mir space station and replacing a crew that had been on board since March.
The Soyuz rocket is a derivative of the same rocket (nicknamed "semyorka," for "old number seven") that served as the first Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile and as the launcher for Sputnik and Gagarin.
Soyuz TM-15, the 70th acknowledged Soyuz flight, was a third-generation Soyuz craft that in its basic design was little changed from the original.
www.spaceistheplace.ca /baik.html   (3522 words)

  
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Soyuz spacecraft often wind up on their sides after landing, which is a serious concern to evacuation of an injured or unconscious crew member.
Soyuz hung loosely by extended probe for one full orbit, swinging back and forth near station structure, until ground control sent new commands to station latches, forcing them fully open.
Source 1 is an ESA cosmonaut involved in the Euromir program; source two is a private interview with one of the two Soyuz crewmembers, which described how the first post burn sequence got within 20 seconds of separation pyro initiation, and the second post burn sequence got within 2 seconds.
www.jamesoberg.com /soyuz.html   (2852 words)

  
 Spacecraft - Soyuz
Soyuz is the most-utilized manned spacecraft and is now into its third decade with a flight total comparable to the aggregate for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle.
Soyuz 1-9 (1967-69) were configured for 3-man LEO solo missions of up to 2-1/2 weeks.
Progress is derived from the manned Soyuz vehicle, but with the descent module replaced by a compartment for transporting up to 940 kg of propellants, other liquids and compressed gases for piping inot the station.
www.braeunig.us /space/specs/soyuz.htm   (1735 words)

  
 The R-7 family of launchers
The Soyuz, the most recognizable Russian rocket, is only one of several space boosters, which derived from the R-7 ballistic missile developed in the mid-1950s.
On Wednesday, Oct. 16, Russian officials said the launch of the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft, which is to use the Soyuz FG rocket could be delayed, pending the investigation of the Plesetsk crash.
On a foggy morning in October 2000, the Soyuz booster was being prepared for the launch of the first resident crew of the International Space Station, more than 43 years after the original version of the rocket flew.
www.russianspaceweb.com /soyuz_lv.html   (4605 words)

  
 Mission of Soyuz TMA-6
2005 April 7: The Soyuz TMA-6 was mated with a rocket adapter, connecting it to the third stage of the Soyuz launch vehicle.
The Soyuz rocket blasted off at 04:46 Moscow Time on April 15, 2005, carrying Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, NASA astronaut John Phillips of Expedition 11 and Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori, representing European Space Agency, ESA.
After the Soyuz had entered orbit, Russian flight controllers reported the spacecraft's solar arrays had deployed as scheduled, and that all appeared normal.
www.russianspaceweb.com /iss_soyuztma6.html   (829 words)

  
 Sandcastle V.I. - Spaceflight Directory - Soyuz Flight Details 6
Alexandrov, of the Soyuz TM-3 crew, remained aboard Mir with Romanenko.
However, it ended in near disaster as a navigational computer malfunctioned in the Soyuz spacecraft preventing the crew from returning to Earth until their life support systems were almost depleted.
The cosmonauts made two space walks, the first to repair thermal blankets on the outside of their Soyuz spacecraft that were apparently damaged during launch and the second to try to repair a hatch that was damaged during the first space walk.
www.sandcastlevi.com /space/soy-m01.htm   (1233 words)

  
 The Partnership - ch9-9
All Soyuz 15 systems that are analogous to those used in the ASTP flight worked in a satisfactory manner.
It was agreed that during the upcoming manned Soyuz flight which is a precursor test flight for the ASTP mission, the American side will perform Soyuz spacecraft tracking with their own ground tracking stations and the two sides will subsequently compare tracking data.
The Soyuz spacecraft was identical to the one that would be flown in July, and the Soviets had designed the December flight plan to check out key parts of the ASTP plan.
www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/SP-4209/ch9-9.htm   (2803 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Soyuz 15 Cosmonaut Sarafanov Dies at 63   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The two were scheduled to be the second crew to live onboard the Soviet Union's first manned military space station, but the guidance system on their Soyuz spacecraft failed during their final approach.
He was a fighter pilot in the Guards Regiment before being selected by the space program as a member of the third air force group of cosmonauts in November 1965.
Demen and he served as the back-up crew to Soyuz 14 before flying as the prime crew of Soyuz 15.
www.space.com /news/cs_051001_sarafanov_death.html   (428 words)

  
 1986
Soyuz-T 15 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 193 x 238 kilometre orbit with cosmonauts Leonid Kizim and Vladimir Solovyev aboard - it is the final Soyuz-T mission
Soyuz-T 15 docks at the forward-facing port of Mir's multi-way docking unit - orbit is 332 x 339 kilometres
Soyuz-T 15 undocks from Mir with Kizim and Solovyev aboard
www.zarya.info /Diaries/1986.htm   (500 words)

  
 collectSPACE - news - "Soyuz 15 cosmonaut Sarafanov dies at 63"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
collectSPACE - news - "Soyuz 15 cosmonaut Sarafanov dies at 63"
Gennady Vasilyevich Sarafanov flew Soyuz 15 with flight engineer Lev Demin, who passed away in 1988.
After completing his initial cosmonaut training in 1967 and his assignment to the Soyuz group in 1972, Sarafanov (with Demen) was assigned to fly Soyuz 13, but his flight was canceled when the mission's target - the Salyut 2 station lost control in orbit.
www.collectspace.com /news/news-093005a.html   (361 words)

  
 TIME.com: Soyuz Setback -- Sep. 9, 1974 -- Page 1
When Soyuz 15 was launched last week from the Soviet space center in Kazakhstan, every sign pointed to another attempt to link up with the Salyut 3 space station, which has been orbiting the earth since last June.
Yet after only two days aloft, Soyuz 15 returned abruptly to earth without docking with the lab.
As usual, the Soviets admitted no problem, but American space analysts speculated that Soyuz's electrical power plant may have failed during the docking attempt.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,904119,00.html   (397 words)

  
 Soloviyov, Anatoli
Docked with Mir on June 9, 1988 aboard Soyuz TM-5
Soyuz TM-13 and Soyuz TM-14 crews were reshuffled extensively due to commercial bookings by Austria and Germany and the necessity of flying a Kazakh-born cosmonaut as part of the Baikonur rental agreement.
Docked with Mir on June 29, 1995 aboard Atlantis as part of the STS-71 crew
pages.prodigy.net /pxkb94ars/Soloviyov_Anatoli.htm   (287 words)

  
 Soyuz Missions at Universe Guide
Roy Neary (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
Soyuz became the spacecraft of choice for Russia after its Vostok and Voskhod craft.
It is still the module that the Russian Space Agency use today, to ferry astronauts and cosmonauts to the International Space Station.
universeguide.com /SoyuzMissions.php?PHPSESSID=59ecee585e119c177604c...   (287 words)

  
 Soviet Cosmonauts
Selected on December 1, 1978 - Retired in December 1980
Selected on October 28, 1965 - Retired on October 11, 1988 - Died on September 15, 1995
Selected in June 1965 - Retired in 1966
pages.prodigy.net /pxkb94ars/Astro_USSR_3.htm   (169 words)

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