Soyuz TM-6

This article is about the spacecraft. For the expedition which it launched, see Mir EP-3.

Soyuz TM-6

COSPAR ID

1988-075A

Mission duration

114 days, 5 hours, 33 minutes, 49 seconds

Orbits completed

~1,840

Spacecraft properties

Spacecraft type

Soyuz-TM

Manufacturer

NPO Energia

Launch mass

7,070 kilograms (15,590 lb)

Crew

Crew size

Launching

Vladimir Lyakhov
Valeri Polyakov
Abdul Mohmand

Landing

Vladimir Titov
Musa Manarov
Jean-Loup Chrétien

Callsign

Прото́н (Proton)

Start of mission

Launch date

August 29, 1988, 04:23:11 UTC^[1]

Rocket

Soyuz-U2

Launch site

Baikonur 1/5

End of mission

Landing date

December 21, 1988, 09:57:00 UTC

Landing site

^[1] 160 kilometres (99 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan

Orbital parameters

Reference system

Geocentric

Regime

Low Earth

Docking with Mir

Soyuz programme (Manned missions)
← Soyuz TM-5	Soyuz TM-7 →

Soyuz TM-6 was the sixth manned spacecraft to visit the Soviet Space Station Mir.^[2] It was launched in August 1988, during the station's third long-duration expedition, Mir EO-3. The three-person crew that was launched consisted of Research Doctor Valeri Polyakov, who became part of the EO-3 crew, as well as the two crew members of the week-long mission Mir EP-3, which included the first ever Afghan cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Mohmand.

On September 8, Soyuz TM-6 was undocked from Mir's Kvant port and redocked onto the Mir Base Block's port.^[3] It remained there until December, when it brought Titov and Manarov of the EO-3 crew back to Earth. It also landed French astronaut Jean-Loup Chrétien, ending his week-long spaceflight which started with Soyuz TM-7.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Vladimir Lyakhov Mir EP-3 Third spaceflight	Vladimir Titov Mir EO-3 Third spaceflight
Research Doctor/Flight Engineer	Valeri Polyakov Mir EO-3 / Mir EO-4 First spaceflight	Musa Manarov Mir EO-3 First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Abdul Mohmand Mir EP-3 First spaceflight	Jean-Loup Chrétien Mir Aragatz Second spaceflight

Dr. Valeri Polyakov remained behind on Mir with cosmonauts Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov when Mohmand and Lyakhov returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-5.

Its crew had a unique makeup, with a commander (Vladimir Lyakhov) who had been trained to fly a Soyuz-TM solo in the event a rescue ship needed to be sent to recover two cosmonauts from Mir, no flight engineer, and two inexperienced cosmonaut-researchers. One was Dr. Valeri Polyakov, who would remain aboard Mir with Titov and Manarov to monitor their health during the final months of their planned year-long stay. The other was Intercosmos cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, from Afghanistan.

Mission parameters

Mass: 7070 kg
Perigee: 195 km
Apogee: 228 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Period: 88.7 minutes

References

1 2 "Mir EO-3". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 15 November 2010.
↑ The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-TM-6.htm
↑ D.F.S.Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage" (PDF). Retrieved 15 November 2010.

Soyuz human spaceflight programme

Main topics

Current missions

Soyuz MS-02

MS-03

Future missions

2017: Soyuz MS-04; MS-05; MS-06; MS-07
2018: Soyuz MS-08; MS-09; MS-10

Past missions
(by spacecraft type)

Soyuz 7K-OK (1966–1970)	Kosmos 133† Soyuz 7K-OK No.1† Kosmos 140 Soyuz 1† Kosmos 186 188 212 213 238 Soyuz 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Soyuz 7K-L1 (1967–1970) (Zond lunar programme)	Kosmos 146 154† Zond 1967A† 1967B† Zond 4 1968A† 1968B† 5 6 1969A† Zond-M 1† M 2† Zond 7 8 9 10

Soyuz 7K-L1E (1969–1970)	Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1† Kosmos 382

Soyuz 7K-LOK (1971–1972)	Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1† No.2†

Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	Soyuz 10† 11†

Soyuz 7K-T (1972–1981)	Kosmos 496 573 Soyuz 12 Kosmos 613 Soyuz 13 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 14 15† 17 18a† 18 20 (uncrewed) 21 23† 24 25† 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (uncrewed landing) 33† 34 (uncrewed launch) 35 36 37 38 39 40

Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	Kosmos 638 672 Soyuz 16 19 (Apollo–Soyuz Test Project) 22

Soyuz 7K-S (1974–1976)	Kosmos 670 772† 869†

Soyuz-T (1978–1986)	Kosmos 1001† 1074 Soyuz T-1 (uncrewed) T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8† T-9 T-10a† T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15

Soyuz-TM (1986–2002)	Soyuz TM-1 (uncrewed) TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34

Soyuz-TMA (2002–2012)	Soyuz TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22

Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2016)	Soyuz TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M TMA-18M TMA-19M TMA-20M

Soyuz MS (2016–present)	Soyuz MS-01

Uncrewed missions are designated with Kosmos numbers; crewed missions get a Soyuz number.
Failed missions are denoted with a † symbol. Cancelled missions are in italics.

Interkosmos programme

Satellites	Interkosmos 1 Interkosmos 2 Interkosmos 3 Interkosmos 4 Interkosmos 5 Interkosmos 6 Interkosmos 7 Interkosmos 8 Interkosmos 9 Interkosmos 10 Interkosmos 11 Interkosmos 12 Interkosmos 13 Interkosmos 14 Interkosmos 15 Interkosmos 16 Interkosmos 17 Interkosmos 18 Interkosmos 19 Interkosmos 20 Interkosmos 21 Interkosmos 22 Interkosmos 23 Interkosmos 24 Interkosmos 25 Interkosmos 26

Manned flights	Soyuz 28 Soyuz 30 Soyuz 31 Soyuz 33 Soyuz 36 Soyuz 37 Soyuz 38 Soyuz 39 Soyuz 40 Soyuz T-6 Soyuz T-11 Soyuz TM-3 Soyuz TM-5 Soyuz TM-6 Soyuz TM-7

Human spaceflights to Mir

Soyuz T-15 Soyuz TM-2 Soyuz TM-3 Soyuz TM-4 Soyuz TM-5 Soyuz TM-6 Soyuz TM-7 Soyuz TM-8 Soyuz TM-9 Soyuz TM-10 Soyuz TM-11 Soyuz TM-12 Soyuz TM-13 Soyuz TM-14 Soyuz TM-15 Soyuz TM-16 Soyuz TM-17 Soyuz TM-18 Soyuz TM-19 Soyuz TM-20 STS-63 Soyuz TM-21 STS-71 Soyuz TM-22 STS-74 Soyuz TM-23 STS-76 Soyuz TM-24 STS-79 STS-81 Soyuz TM-25 STS-84 Soyuz TM-26 STS-86 STS-89 Soyuz TM-27 STS-91 Soyuz TM-28 Soyuz TM-29 Soyuz TM-30

← 1987 · Orbital launches in 1988 · 1989 →

Kosmos 1908 \| Kosmos 1909 · Kosmos 1910 · Kosmos 1911 · Kosmos 1912 · Kosmos 1913 · Kosmos 1914 \| Gorizont No.25L \| Progress 34 \| Kosmos 1915 \| Meteor-2 No.20 \| USA-29 \| Kosmos 1916 \| USA-30 \| Kosmos 1919 · Kosmos 1917 · Kosmos 1918 \| Kosmos 1920 \| Kosmos 1921 \| Sakura 3a \| Kosmos 1922 \| Zhongxing-1 \| Kosmos 1923 \| Kosmos 1924 · Kosmos 1925 · Kosmos 1926 · Kosmos 1927 · Kosmos 1928 · Kosmos 1929 · Kosmos 1930 · Kosmos 1931 \| Molniya-1 No.65 \| Spacenet 3R · Telecom 1C \| Kosmos 1932 \| Kosmos 1933 \| IRS-1A \| Molniya-1 No.64 \| Kosmos 1934 \| Progress 35 \| Kosmos 1935 \| San Marco 5 \| Kosmos 1936 \| Gorizont No.26L \| Kosmos 1937 \| Kosmos 1938 \| Foton No.4L \| Kosmos 1939 \| Transit-O 23 · Transit-O 32 \| Kosmos 1940 \| Kosmos 1941 \| Ekran No.31L \| Kosmos 1942 \| Progress 36 \| Kosmos 1943 \| Intelsat VA F-13 \| Kosmos 1944 \| Kosmos 1945 \| Kosmos 1946 · Kosmos 1947 · Kosmos 1948 \| Molniya-3 No.49 \| Kosmos 1949 \| Kosmos 1950 \| Kosmos 1951 \| Soyuz TM-5 \| Kosmos 1952 \| Kosmos 1953 \| Meteosat 3 · PAS-1 · OSCAR-13 \| Nova 2 \| Kosmos 1954 \| Kosmos 1955 \| Kosmos 1956 \| Okean-O1 No.5 \| Kosmos 1957 \| Fobos 1 \| Unnamed \| Fobos 2 \| SROSS-B \| Kosmos 1958 \| Progress 37 \| Kosmos 1959 \| INSAT-1C · ECS-5 \| Meteor-3 No.3 \| Resurs-F1 No.30 \| Kosmos 1960 \| Kosmos 1961 \| Fanhui Shi Weixing I-02 \| Kosmos 1962 \| Molniya-1 No.66 \| Kosmos 1963 \| Gorizont No.28L \| Kosmos 1964 \| Kosmos 1965 \| Transit-O 25 · Transit-O 31 \| Soyuz TM-6 \| Kosmos 1966 \| USA-31 \| USA-32 \| Kosmos 1967 \| Fengyun I-01 \| GStar-3 · SBS-5 \| Kosmos 1968 \| Progress 38 \| Kosmos 1969 \| Kosmos 1970 · Kosmos 1971 · Kosmos 1972 \| Sakura 3b \| Ofek-1 \| Kosmos 1973 \| NOAA-11 \| Molniya-3 No.51 \| STS-26 (TDRS-3) \| Kosmos 1974 \| Kosmos 1975 \| Kosmos 1976 \| Gran' No.34L \| Kosmos 1977 \| Kosmos 1978 \| TDF-1 \| USA-33 \| Unnamed \| Buran 1K1 (37KB No.3770) \| Kosmos 1979 \| Kosmos 1980 \| Kosmos 1981 \| Soyuz TM-7 \| Kosmos 1982 \| STS-27 (USA-34) \| Kosmos 1983 \| Ekran-M No.12L \| Skynet 4B · Astra 1A \| Kosmos 1984 \| Zhongxing-2 \| Molniya-3 No.52 \| Kosmos 1985 \| Progress 39 \| Molniya-1 No.63 \| Kosmos 1986

Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( \| ). Manned flights are indicated in bold text. Uncatalogued launch failures are listed in italics. Payloads deployed from other spacecraft are denoted in (brackets).

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