Expedition EO-10

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Mission details:

• Mir Expedition EO-10
• Soyuz TM-13 docked on Soyuz TM-12/Quant1-MIR-Quant2-Kristall spacestation; scientific experiments with ninth resident crew.
• Resident crew partly exchanged; Volkov and Krikalyov became tenth MIR-resident crew; both cosmonauts performed an EVA on 20.02.1992 (4h 12m).
• At 00:01 UT on Oct 15, 1991 Volkov and Krikalyov undocked from the front port in Soyuz TM-13 and flew around the station to inspect it, docking at the rear Kvant port at 0145 UT to test its new docking antenna. The robot cargo ship Progress M-10 was launched around 00:10 UT on Oct 17 and docked with Mir on Oct 21 after a failed attempt on Oct 19. This is a longer interval than normal between launch and docking and may indicate continuing problems with the rendezvous antenna.
• Orbit of the complex on Nov 1, 1991 was 391x398 km inclined 51.6 deg.
• The crew will be replaced in March of 1992, barring further political upheavals. By that time both will be among the four humans with the most flight experience in space (the others are Manarov and Romanenko). So far Krikalyov has 196 days on this mission and 316 days total; Volkov has 59 days on this mission and 276 days total.
• Progress M-11, launched from the Kazakh spaceport Baikonur on Jan 25, 1991 docked with Mir on Jan 27.
• Aleksandr Volkov and Sergey Krikalyov made a 4h spacewalk on Feb 20, 1991 for external experiment retreival and routine maintenance.
• Aleksandr Volkov and Sergey Krikalyov undocked from the Kvant rear port on Mar 14, 1991 in Soyuz TM-13 and redocked about an hour later at the Mir front port.
• On Mar 17, 1991 at 0854 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.
• On Mar 25, Volkov, Krikalyov and Flade undocked from the front port in Soyuz TM-13 and landed in Kazakhstan at 0851 UTC on Mar 25.
  Krikalyov's flight was the third longest ever, at 311 days 20 hours 1 min, and he and Volkov hold second and fourth place in the cumulative spaceflight experience rankings (Musa Manarov has 541 days, Krikalyov has 463 days, Yuri Romanenko has 430 days, and Volkov has 391 days).