Soyuz TM-19

Soyuz TM -19 mission was the name given to the flight of a Russian Soyuz spaceship to the Russian space station Mir. It was the 19th visit of the Soyuz spacecraft with the Mir space station and the 95th flight in the Russian Sojusprogramm.

Crew

Start crew

  • Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( first space flight), Commander (Russia Russia)
  • Talghat Musabayev ( first space flight), flight engineer ( Kazakhstan )

This was 17 years ( Soyuz 25 ), the first Soviet space flight in which no member of the team was already in space before.

Backup crew

  • Alexander Stepanovich Viktorenko, Commander
  • Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, board engineer

Return team

  • Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko ( first space flight), Commander (Russia Russia)
  • Talghat Musabayev ( first space flight), flight engineer ( Kazakhstan )
  • Ulf Merbold ( third space flight ), Science Cosmonaut ( European Space Agency ESA / Germany Germany )

Mission overview

The crew of Soyuz TM -19 was strengthened by the acquisition of the physician Valery Polyakov to a crew member. Polyakov lived and worked a total of 14 months in weightlessness. In addition to the continuation of medical studies at the bloodstream, the immune system, muscle and bone tissue were materials science (metal alloys, semiconductors ) and maintenance work, the four- month mission. If there are two exits, on 9 September for five hours and four minutes and 13 September for six hours and one minute, Malenchenko and Musabayev took repair work on the thermal insulation of the station before and put the solar panels from the crystal module to Kvant module to. This shift should facilitate the smooth docking of the space shuttle. Material and supplies were previously arrived with the transport spaceship Progress M -24.

Other scientific experiments were carried out in the fields earth science, astrophysics and biotechnology. Soyuz TM -19 returned with Ulf Merbold, the Soyuz TM 20 arrived in October in the station, on the earth, while Valeri Polyakov was transferred to the new crew.

Since May 3, 2010, is the landing module in the Technik Museum Speyer.

736715
de