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.

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