Soyuz TM-14

Launch & orbit data: Designation  21908 / 92014A Launch date - time  17 Mar 1992 - 10:54:30 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1 Launch vehicle  Soyuz 11A511U2 OKB name - S/Nº  Soyuz 7K-STM (11F732) s/nº 64 Mass (kg)  7.150 Call Sign  Vityaz (Knight) Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  373 x 394 km    - Inclination  51.6°    - Period  62.2 min

Docking & landing data: Docking date - time  19 Mar 1992 - 12:32:50 UT Target spacecraft/port  Mir/Kvant Undocking date - time  09 Aug 1992 - 21:46:47 UT Deorbit burn date - time   Landing date - time  10 Aug 1992 - 01:05:02 UT Landing location  47° 25' N, 69° 21' E Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  145d 14u 11m Nbr orbits   Landing crew  Viktorenko, Kaleri, Tognini  (crew TM-14 & TM-15)

Crew (EO-11):

Backup Crew

Mir Backlit - Credit: NASA.

Mir in space - cloud background - Credit: RKK Energia.

Description:

• Launch from Baikonur; landing 136 km east of Dzheskasgan; Mission MIR`92; docking on Soyuz TM-13-Quant1-MIR-Kristall-Quant2 complex at 12:33 GMT on March 19. Scientific experiments with the tenth MIR resident crew; Viktorenko and Kaleri became the eleventh resident crew; first mission after disolution of the USSR; first Russian spaceflight; first joined spaceflight Russia-Germany; Viktorenko and Kaleri performed an EVA on 08.07.1992 (2h 03m), inspecting gyrodyne orientation flywheels.

Mission details:

• Mir Expedition EO-11.
• On Mar 17, 1991 at 10:54 UTC launch of Soyuz TM-14 spaceship into orbit. Crew are Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr Kaleri of Russia and Klaus-Dietrich Flade of Germany. They docked at the Kvant rear port at 1233 UTC on Mar 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.

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel and special cancel Baikonur, on overprinted Russian stamps, signed by crew and backup.

Special "MIR-92" cancel on special cover.

Cosmic Mail: Special launch cancel Moscou 170392, with blue five-side and exagonal MIR boardcancel and MIR-92 cancel, signed by crew.

Cosmic Mail: Mir Aerogramme with octagonal Mir boardcancel and octagonal date cancel 250392, special MIR-92 cancel signed by the crew.

Undocking and recovery cancel Dzhezkazgan, signed by crew.