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Kaleri Viktorenko

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Mir Backlit Credit - NASA

17 March 1992 10:54 GMT. Landing Date: 1992-08-10 01:05:02. Flight Time: 145.59 days. Alternate Name: Soyuz TM-14 (Kaleri, Viktorenko). Flight Up: Soyuz TM-14. Flight Back: Soyuz TM-14. Call Sign: Vityaz (Knight ). Crew: Kaleri, Viktorenko. Backup Crew: Avdeyev, Solovyov. Program: Mir. Mir Expedition EO-11. Joint flight with Germany. Docked at the Kvant rear port at 12:33 GMT on March 19. 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 Aug 9, and landed in Kazakhstan at 01:07 GMT on August 10.

• 1992 Mar 17 - Soyuz TM-14  Crew: Flade, Kaleri, Viktorenko. Spacecraft: Soyuz TM. Payload: Soyuz TM 11F732 s/n 64. Mass: 7,150 kg (15,760 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U2. Duration: 145.59 days. Perigee: 373 km (231 mi). Apogee: 394 km (244 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 92.20 min.

  Mir Expedition EO-11. Joint flight with Germany. Docked at the Kvant rear port at 12:33 GMT on March 19.

• 1992 Mar 25 - Landing of Soyuz TM-13 

  Soyuz TM-13 landed at 08:51 GMT with the crew of Flade, Krikalyov and Volkov Aleksandr aboard.

• 1992 Apr 19 - Progress M-12  Spacecraft: Progress M. Payload: Progress M s/n 213. Mass: 7,320 kg (16,130 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U2. Duration: 69.11 days. Perigee: 373 km (231 mi). Apogee: 394 km (244 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 92.20 min.

  Unmanned resupply vessel to Mir. Docked with Mir on 21 Apr 1992 23:21:59 GMT. Undocked on 27 Jun 1992 21:34:44 GMT. Destroyed in reentry on 28 Jun 1992 00:02:51 GMT. Total free-flight time 2.18 days. Total docked time 66.93 days.

• 1992 Apr 19 - VBK Raduga  Spacecraft: Progress M. Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U2.

• 1992 May 30 - Mir News 132: Experiments have priority. 

  The cosmonauts o.b. Mir have been working on experiments instead of repairing and ...more...

• 1992 Jun 27 - Mir News 134: Progress-M13 

  Launch of this freighter still on schedule for 30 June 1992. Russian spaceflight ...more...

• 1992 Jun 28 - Mir News 135: Progress-M12 

  OPERATIONS CONCLUDED.

  To make the docking of the freighter Progress-M13 on 2 July ...more...

• 1992 Jun 30 - Progress M-13  Spacecraft: Progress M. Payload: Progress M s/n 214. Mass: 7,320 kg (16,130 lb). Launch Site: Baikonur. Launch Vehicle: Soyuz 11A511U2. Duration: 23.64 days. Perigee: 185 km (114 mi). Apogee: 226 km (140 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg. Period: 88.60 min.

  Unmanned resupply vessel to Mir. An initial docking attempt on 2 Jul 1992 was a failure. Docked with Mir on 4 Jul 1992 16:55:13 GMT. Undocked on 24 Jul 1992 04:14:00 GMT. Destroyed in reentry on 24 Jul 1992 08:03:35 GMT. Total free-flight time 4.17 days. Total docked time 19.47 days. It was docked to Mir for only a few weeks, since on 26 Jul the Soyuz TM-15 was to be launched with a replacement crew and would need to use the same docking port.

• 1992 Jul 4 - Mir News 137: Progress-M13 

  2D DOCKING ATTEMPT SUCCESSFUL ON 4 JULY 1992 AT 1707 UTC.

  During the first pass ...more...

• 1992 Jul 8 - EVA Mir EO-11-1  Crew: Viktorenko, Kaleri. EVA Type: Extra-Vehicular Activity. EVA Duration: 0.0854 days. Spacecraft: Mir.

  Inspected gyrodyne orientation flywheels.

• 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 11A511U2. 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.

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