Expedition EO-27

Russia

'EO' is the Russian abbreviation for 'primary expedition'

Crew & mission data:

No.:	1	2	3
Exp.crew:	Afanasiyev, Viktor	Avdeyev, Sergei	Haigneré, Jean-Pierre
Job:	CDR	Flight Engineer	Flight Engineer
Launch vehicle:	Soyuz TM-29	from EO-26	Soyuz TM-29
Docking date/time:	22 Feb 1999 - 05:36:16	-	22 Feb 1999 - 05:36:16
Undocking date/time:	27 Aug 1999 - 21:17:01	27 Aug 1999 - 21:17:01	27 Aug 1999 - 21:17:01
Landing vehicle:	Soyuz TM-29	Soyuz TM-29	Soyuz TM-29
Mir-mission duration:	188d 20h 17m?	379d 14h 52m?	188d 20h 17m?
Orbits:	2988?	6007?	2988?

EVA data:

EVAs	Date	Duration	Cosmonauts
EVA-1
EVA-2

Mission details:

Mir Expedition EO-027
The new Mir crew, EO-27, is Viktor Afanas'ev (Komandir), Sergey Avdeev (who was formerly on the EO-26 crew), (Bortinzhener) and Jean-Pierre Haignere (Bortinzhener-2). The crew call sign is 'Derbent'.
On the Mir orbital station, Viktor Afanas'ev and Jean-Pierre Haignere made a spacewalk on Apr 16, 1999 for 6h 19m during which Haignere launched by hand the Sputnik-99 amateur radio satellite. The satellite was delivered by Progress M-41 in April; apparently the backup Sputnik-40 is still stored on the station. The spacewalk began at 04:37 UTC (0837 Moscow local time) and the hatch was closed at 10:56 UTC. The satellite deployment was probably around 10:30 UTC.

Astrophilately covers:

Space Mail: Cover with 2 black Mir boardcancel, docking date boardcancel: 220299 and undocking Soyuz TM-28 boardcancel: 280299, signed by the crew on board.

Ref.: #7(JR390,395) - update: 26.11.18

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