Soyuz TM-26
Soyuz TM -26 mission is the designation for the flight of a Russian Soyuz spaceship to the Russian space station Mir. The 32nd manned visit a spaceship at the Mir space station was the 26th visit of a Soyuz spaceship and the 102nd flight in Sojusprogramm.
Crew
Start crew
- Anatoli Yakovlevich Solovyov ( fifth space flight ), Commander
- Pavel Vinogradov ( first space flight), flight engineer
Backup crew
- Gennady Ivanovich Padalka, commander
- Sergei Vasilyevich Avdeev, Flight Engineer
Return crew
- Anatoli Yakovlevich Solovyov ( fifth space flight ), Commander
- Pavel Vinogradov ( first space flight), flight engineer
- Léopold Eyharts ( first flight), Research Cosmonaut ( Centre national d' études spatiales CNES / France )
Mission overview
The main objective of the mission was to bring two specially-trained cosmonauts to the station to repair the Mir station. By means of manual control TM -26 in two days after the launch of the " Kvant " module docked Soyuz. The crew repaired the main line and various harnesses the damaged " Spektr " module and was able to recover so the power supply. They also repaired the oxygen generators of the station.