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Landed: Vladimir Lyakhov was born in Antratsit, Voroshilovgrad Oblast, USSR (now the Ukraine) on July 20, 1941. ... Valery Victorovitch Ryumin (born August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) was a Soviet cosmonaut. ...
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Mission parameters
Mass: 6800 kg
Perigee: 198.4 km
Apogee: 274.3 km
Inclination: 51.61°
Period: 89.94 minutes
Mission highlights
7th expedition to Salyut 6. Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 34; crew duration 175 days, 36 min. Salyut 6 was a Soviet space station launched on September 29, 1977. ... Crew Launched: empty - no crew Landed: Vladimir Lyakhov (1) Valery Ryumin (2) Mission Parameters Mass: ? kg Perigee: 199 km Apogee: 271. ...
Its long-duration crew spent 175 days on Salyut 6. Less than 2 months into their stay, Soyuz 33 failed to dock because of a main engine malfunction. Soyuz 32 returned to Earth unmanned with a cargo of experiment results and equipment no longer in use after Soyuz 34 had docked unmanned with Salyut 6 to replace it. // Crew Nikolay Rukavishnikov (3) Georgi Ivanov (1) - Bulgaria Mission Parameters Mass: 6860 kg Perigee: 198. ... Crew Launched: empty - no crew Landed: Vladimir Lyakhov (1) Valery Ryumin (2) Mission Parameters Mass: ? kg Perigee: 199 km Apogee: 271. ...
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.
Since at least one Soyuz had to be docked to the ISS constantly to provide emergency escape for the residents of the station, Russia planned the replacement of the Soyuz every six months.
The Soyuz TM spacecraft (Tail Number #206), which was in standby readiness during Mir deorbiting at the beginning of 2001 was reassigned as the crew rescue vehicle for the International Space Station in April 2001.
The Soyuz TM-32 is scheduled to be integrated with its launch-vehicle on April 25 and rolled out to the Launch Pad 5 in Area 1 in Baikonur on April 26, two days before launch.
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