Soyuz TM-15 was the 15th expedition to the Mir space station.[1] It included spationaut Michel Tognini from France. The Soyuz TM-15 flight set what was then a new Soyuz spacecraft on orbit endurance record.[2]

Soyuz TM-15
OperatorRosaviakosmos
COSPAR ID1992-046A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.22054Edit this on Wikidata
Mission duration188 days, 21 hours, 41 minutes, 15 seconds
Orbits completed~3,070
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-STM No. 65
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-TM
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Launch mass7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb)
Crew
Crew size3 up
2 down
MembersAnatoly Solovyev
Sergei Avdeyev
LaunchingMichel Tognini
CallsignRodnik (Spring)
Start of mission
Launch dateJuly 27, 1992, 06:08:42 (1992-07-27UTC06:08:42Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U2
End of mission
Landing dateFebruary 1, 1993, 03:49:57 (1993-02-01UTC03:49:58Z) UTC
Landing sitenear Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude196 kilometres (122 mi)
Apogee altitude216 kilometres (134 mi)
Inclination51.6 degrees
Docking with Mir
Docking dateJuly 29, 1992, 07:49:05 UTC
Undocking dateFebruary 1, 1993, 00:19:47 UTC
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Crew

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Position Launching crew Landing crew
Commander   Anatoly Solovyev
Third spaceflight
Flight Engineer   Sergei Avdeyev
First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut   Michel Tognini
First spaceflight
None

Mission highlights

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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 2 weeks in space as part of ongoing space cooperation between Russia and France.

References

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  1. ^ The full mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM15.htm
  2. ^ "Soyuz TM-15". Astronautix.com. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016. Retrieved 2017-11-22.