Soyuz TM-11

USSR

Manned Flight nº: 138

Earth orbit Flight nº: 135

USSR Flight nº: 71

Launch & orbit data:

Designation	20981 / 90107A
Launch date - time	02 Dec 1990 - 08:13:32 UT
Launch site	Baikonur, LC1
Launch vehicle	Soyuz 11A511U2
OKB name - S/Nº	Soyuz 7K-STM (11F732) s/n° 61
Mass (kg)	7.150
Call Sign	Derbent (Russian city)
Earth orbit on :
- Perigee / Apogee	367 / 400 km
- Inclination	51.6°
- Period	92.2 min

Docking & landing data:

Docking date - time	04 Dec 1990 - 09:57:09 UT
Target spacecraft/port	Mir/fore
Undocking date - time
Redocking date - time	UT
Target spacecraft/port	Kvant/
Undocking date - time	26 May 1991 - 06:15:59 UT
Deorbit burn date - time	26 May 1991 - 09:11:59 UT
Landing date - time	26 May 1991 - 10:04:13 UT
Landing location	61 km SE of Dzheskazgan
Flight Duration (d:hr:min)	175:01:52
Nbr orbits
Landing crew	Afanasyev, Manarov & Sharman (crew TM-11 & TM-12)

Akiyama landed with Soyuz TM-10 on 10 Dec 1990.

Launch Crew (EO-8 & Juno)

Nr.	Surname	Given name	Job	Duration	Orbits
1	Afanasiyev	Viktor Mikhailovich	Commander	175d 01h 50m	2770
2	Manarov	Musa Khiromanovich	Flight engineer	175d 01h 50m	2770
3	Akiyama	Toyohiro	Research cosmonaut	7d 21h 54m	125

Backup Crew

Nr.	Name	Job
1	Artsebarskiy, Anatilo P.	Commander
2	Krikalyev,Sergei K.	Flight engineer
2	Kikuchi, Ryoko	Research cosm. - Japan

2nd Backup: Volkov Aleksandr A. & Kaleri Aleksandr Y.

Mir TM-11 - Akiyama and Afanasyev before flight. - Credit: RKK Energia.

Description:

Docked with Mir. Mir Expedition EO-08. Transported to the Mir manned orbital station the international crew consisting of the cosmonauts V M Afanasyev, M Kh Manarov, and T Akiyami (Japan) for the purpose of carrying out joint work with the cosmonauts G M Manakov and G M Strekalov. Launched jointly with the private Japanese company TBS.

Mission details:

First commercial flight with a paying passenger. The Japanese television network ended up paying $ 28 million for the first commercial flight to Mir to put Akiyama, the first journalist in space aboard Soyuz TM-11. Akiyama made daily television broadcasts.
Soyuz TM-11 was launched on Dec 02, 1990 at 0813UT, carrying Afanas'ev, Manarov and Akiyama toward the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-10 complex to join Manakov and Strekalov. Their launch means that 12 people are now in orbit, which is a record. Manakov, Strekalov and Akiyama will return to Earth in Soyuz TM-10, with Afanas'ev and Manarov remaining in orbit.
Soyuz TM-11 docked with Mir's forward port on Dec 4. The new crewmembers of the Mir/Kvant/Kvant-2/Kristall/Soyuz TM-11 complex are Afanas'ev and Manarov. The rear port of Kvant is free to receive the Progress M-6 cargo craft due for launch soon. Orbit of the complex is 371x405 km.
Afanasiyev and Manarov became the eighth resident crew; both cosmonauts performed four EVA′s at 07.01. (5h 18m), 23.01. (5h 33m), 26.01. (6h 20m) and 25.04.1991 (3h 34m); during the EVA′s they completed the repair of the Quant-hatch, installed the Strela boom and solar array supports on Mir, and finally inspected the Kurs docking system antenna.
Soyuz TM-11 undocked from the Mir complex and landed on May 26. Aboard were the long stay crew Viktor Afanas′ev and Musa Manarov, and Soyuz TM-12 researcher Helen Sharman of England.
Musa Manarov landed with 540 days 22 hours and 31 minutes spaceflight time accrued over two missions to Mir, beating Yuriy Romanenko′s record for cumulative spaceflight time by over 100 days, and the US record by over a factor of six.

Soyuz TM-11 - Afanasyev and Manarov walk to launch vehicle. - Credit: RKK Energia.

Mir Strela Boom - Credit: RKK Energia.

Astrophilately covers:

Special launch cancel Baikonur, signed by the crew.

Docking cancel Baikonur. Credit: #402

Space Mail Launch cancel Baikonur and MIR boardcancel, signed by the crew. Credit: #409

Cosmic Mail: with octagonal Mir boardcancel, octagonal date cancel 041290 and special Baikonur cancel, signed by the crew and backup.

Cosmic Mail: with five-site Mir boardcancel, octagonal MIR boardcancel, octagonal date cancel 160191 and special Russian launch cancel, registration cancel and signed by the crew.

Landing cancel Dzheskazgan, signed by Afanasyev, Manarov & Sharman.

Landing cancel Arkalyk, send registrated.

Ref.: #1, #7(JR61,62,75), #8, #10, #16, #210, #402, #409 - update: 29.01.19

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