Soyuz TM-25

Soyuz TM-25

Operator	Rosaviakosmos
Mission duration	184 days, 22 hours, 7 minutes, 40 seconds
Orbits completed	~2,950
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TM
Manufacturer	RKK Energia
Launch mass	7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb)
Crew
Crew size	3 up 2 down
Members	Vasili Tsibliyev Aleksandr Lazutkin
Launching	Reinhold Ewald
Callsign	Си́риус (Sirius)
Start of mission
Launch date	February 10, 1997, 14:09:30 (1997-02-10UTC14:09:30Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
End of mission
Landing date	August 14, 1997, 12:17:10 (1997-08-14UTC12:17:11Z) UTC
Landing site	170 kilometres (110 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	378 kilometres (235 mi)
Apogee	394 kilometres (245 mi)
Inclination	51.56 degrees
Docking with Mir
File:Soyuz TM-25 patch.png Soyuz programme (Manned missions) ← Soyuz TM-24 Soyuz TM-26 →

Soyuz TM-25 was the 30th manned spacecraft mission to visit the Russian Space Station Mir.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Vasili Tsibliyev Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Aleksandr Lazutkin First spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Reinhold Ewald First spaceflight	None

Mission highlights

This was the 30th expedition to Mir. An ESA astronaut from Germany was included on the mission.

Soyuz TM-25 is a Russian spacecraft that was launched to carry astronauts and supplies to Mir station. It was launched by a Soyuz-U rocket from Baykonur cosmodrome at 14:09 UT to ferry three cosmonauts for a 162-day stay at the station; it docked with the station at 15:51 UT on 12 February 97. Within meters of automatic approach to the station, a slight misalignment was noted, and the commander of the module had to dock it by manual steering.