| COSPAR ID | 1991-069A |
|---|---|
| SATCAT no. | 21735 |
| Mission duration | 175 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes, 44 seconds |
| Orbits completed | ~2,730 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz 7K-STM No. 63 |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz-TM |
| Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
| Launch mass | 7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb) |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Alexander Volkov |
| Launching | Toktar Aubakirov Franz Viehböck |
| Landing | Sergei Krikalev Klaus-Dietrich Flade |
| Callsign | Донба́сс (Donbass) |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 2 October 1991, 05:59:38 UTC |
| Rocket | Soyuz-U2 |
| Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 25 March 1992, 08:51:22 UTC |
| Landing site | near Dzhezkazgan |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric |
| Regime | Low Earth |
| Perigee altitude | 195 kilometres (121 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 232 kilometres (144 mi) |
| Inclination | 51.7 degrees |
| Period | 92.4 minutes |
| Docking with Mir | |
| Docking date | 4 October 1991, 07:38:42 UTC |
| Undocking date | 25 March 1992, 05:29:03 UTC |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) | |
Soyuz TM-13 was the 13th expedition to the Mir space station.[1] Lasting from October 1991 to March 1992, the mission included cosmonauts from Austria and the soon-to-be independent region of Kazakhstan, as the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991. The launch ceremony at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakh SSR was attended by the Soviet Premier Ivan Silaev, the President of the Kazakh SSR Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the Chancellor of Austria Franz Vranitzky. Before the launch, for the first time, President Nazarbayev received the launch report from cosmonaut Tokhtar Aubakirov in the Kazakh language.[2]
