Tognini

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27 July 1992 06:08 GMT. Landing Date: 1992-08-10 01:05:02 PM. Flight Time: 13.79 days. Alternate Name: Soyuz TM-15 (Tognini). Flight Up: Soyuz TM-15. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-14. Call Sign: Rodnik (Spring - water spring). Crew: Tognini. Backup Crew: Haignere. Program: Mir. Russian astronauts Solovyov and Avdeev and French astronaut Tognini were inserted into an initial 190 x 200 km orbit inclined 51.6 deg. Later on July 27 they maneuvered to a 223 x 343 km orbit, and on July 28 docked with Mir in its 405 x 410 km orbit. The Tognini returned to earth together with the EO-11 crew aboard Soyuz TM-14 on 10 August, 1992.

Narrative (adapted from D S F Portree's Mir Hardware Heritage, NASA RP-1357, 1995)

Soyuz TM-15 arrived on 29 July. Aboard were the EO-12 crew of Anatoli Solovyov and Sergei Avdeyev, together with Michel Tognini, the third Frenchman to visit a space station. He conducted ten experiments using 300 kg of equipment delivered by Progress-M flights. The EO-11 crew departed Mir together with Tognini aboard Soyuz TM-14 on 9 August, 1992.

• 1992 Jul 27 - Soyuz TM-15  Crew: Avdeyev, Solovyov, Tognini. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM. Payload: Soyuz TM 11F732 s/n 65. Mass: 7,150 kg (15,760 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz. Duration: 188.90 days. Perigee: 196 km (121 mi). Apogee: 216 km (134 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 88.60 min.

  Mir Expedition EO-12. Russian astronauts Solovyov and Avdeev and French astronaut Tognini were inserted into an initial 190 x 200 km orbit inclined 51.6 deg. Later on July 27 they maneuvered to a 223 x 343 km orbit, and on July 28 docked with Mir in its 405 x 410 km orbit.

• 1992 Aug 10 - Landing of Soyuz TM-14 

  The Soyuz TM-14 crew, Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr Kaleri, returned to Earth together with French astronaut Michel Tognini. The Soyuz TM-14 undocked from Mir at 21:47 GMT on August 9, and landed in Kazakhstan at 01:07 GMT on August 10.