Soyuz TM-19

Launch & orbit data: Designation  23139 / 94036A Launch date - time  01 Jul 1994 - 12:24:50 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC1 Launch vehicle  Soyuz 11A511U2 OKB name - S/N°  Soyuz 7K-STM (11F732) s/n° 68 Mass (kg)  7.150 Call Sign  Agat (Agate) Earth orbit on :    - Perigee / Apogee  393 x 395 km    - Inclination  51.65 deg    - Period  92.44 min

Docking & landing data: Docking date - time  03 Jul 1994 - 13:55:01 UT Target spacecraft/port  Mir/Kvant Undocking date - time  04 Nov 1994 - 08:31:30 UT Deorbit burn date - time  04 Nov 1994 - 10:22:48 UT  separate: 10:51:05 UT  re-enter: 10:56:13 UT Landing date - time  04 Nov 1994 - 11:18:26 UT Landing location  88 km NE of Arkalyk (50° 54' N, 67° 36' E) Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  125:22:53 Nbr orbits   Landing crew  Malenchenko, Musabayev, Merbold  (crew TM-19 & TM-20)

Launch Crew (EO-16):

Backup Crew

Mission details:

• resident crew partly exchanged; both cosmonauts and Doctor cosmonaut Polyakov became the 16th resident crew; the crew conducted medical experiments (research of problems of weightlessness in long-term-mission); experiments in materials science; both cosmonauts performed two EVA's on 09.09.1994 (5h 06m) and 14.09.1994 (6h 01m), in which the stations external insulation was repaired; many problems during this mission, which finally ended with the first successful manual docking of a Progress supply ship on the station by Malenchenko.
• Mir Expedition EO-16. Soyuz TM-19 docked at the rear port of the Kvant module (vacated by Progress M-23 on July 2) at 13:55:01 GMT on July 3. Soyuz TM-19 undocked from Mir at 07:29 GMT on November 4. The Soyuz instrument module (PAO, priborno-agregatniy otsek) fired its deorbit engine, and was jettisoned together with the orbital module (BO, bitovoy otsek) at 10:51 GMT, with entry interface for the descent module (SA, spuskaemiy apparat) at 10:54. It landed 170 km north-east of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan on 1994 November 4 at 11:18 GMT.