Expedition EO-5

Crew & mission data: No.: 1 2 Exp.crew:  Viktorenko, Aleksandr  Serebrov, Aleksandr Job:  CDR  Flight Engineer Launch vehicle:  Soyuz TM-8  Soyuz TM-8 Docking date/time:  07 Sep 1989 - 22:25:26  07 Sep 1989 - 22:25:26 Undocking date/time:  19 Feb 1990 - 01:06:20  19 Feb 1990 - 01:06:20 Landing vehicle:  Soyuz TM-8  Soyuz TM-8 Mir-mission duration:  166d 06h 58m?  166d 06h 58m? Orbits:  2631?  2631?

EVA data: EVAs  Date  Duration  Cosmonauts EVA-1  08 Jan 1990  2h 56m  Viktorenko, Serebrov EVA-2  11 Jan 1990  2h 54m  Viktorenko, Serebrov EVA-3  26 Jan 1990  3h 02m  Viktorenko, Serebrov from the new main airlock on Kvant-2 EVA-4  01 Feb 1990  4h 59m  Viktorenko, Serebrov EVA-5  05 Feb 1990  3h 45m  Viktorenko, Serebrov

Mission details:

• Mir Expedition EO-05
• Soyuz TM-8 was launched from Baikonur on Sep 05, 1989. The crew are Aleksandr Viktorenko (Kdr) and Aleksandr Serebrov (BI, or flight engineer).
• Soyuz TM-8 docked with the Mir orbital station on Sep 07; deconserving of complex; experiments in the areas of medicine and geophysics.
• The station's orbit was altered on Sep 13 using the engine of Progress M-1 (docked on Aug 25, 1989 in automatic mode).
• The Progress M-1 cargo craft undocked on Dec 01 at 09:02 and reentered the same day.
• Kvant-2 docked on Dec 06 at Port 1 and was rotated to Port 3 on Dec 08, 1989.
  
  

  View of Mir from Soyuz TM-8 after the addition of the Kvant-2 module from left to right: Soyuz TM-9, Kvant-1, Base Block and Kvant-2

  
  
• Viktorenko and Serebrov moved Soyuz TM-8 from Port 2 to Port 1 on Dec 12, 1989.
• Progress M-2 was launched on Dec 20 and docked at Port 2 on Dec 22.
• Viktorenko and Serebrov made EVAs on Jan 8 (2h 56m) and Jan 11 (2h 54m) from one of the Mir ports to carry out maintenance and upgrades on Kvant; then on Jan 26 (3h 02m) they used the new main airlock on Kvant-2 for the first time to carry out preps for the test flights of the SPK (Sredstvo Peredvizheniya Kosmonavtov) "Ikar" manoeuvring unit. The SPK tethered test flights were carried out on Feb 01 and 05.
• Progress M-2 undocked from Port 2 on Feb 9 and was deorbited over the Pacific.
• Solov'yov and Balandin were launched in Soyuz TM-9 on Feb 11 and docked at Kvant Port 2 on Feb 13.
• Viktorenko and Serebrov handed over command of the complex and prepared to return to Soyuz TM-8. TM-8 undocked from Port 1 and landed in the Arkalyk recovery zone on Feb 19.