Yuri Romanenko

(Mir EO-2-Third Space Flight) Flight Engineer:

Aleksandr Laveykin

(Mir EO-2 -First Space Flight) Flight Engineer:

Aleksandr Viktorenko

(Mir EP-1 -First Space Flight) Flight Engineer:

Muhammed Faris

(Mir EP-1 -First Space Flight)

Backup Crew: Commander: Nil

Soyuz TM-2 was the spacecraft used to launch a long duration crew to the Soviet Space Station Mir, which was unmanned at the time. TM-2 was launched in February 1987, and it was first manned spaceflight of the Soyuz TM spacecraft, and the second manned spaceflight to Mir (the first being Soyuz T-15). The crew of the long duration expedition, Mir E-O2, who were launched by TM-2 consisted of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenkoand Aleksandr.

The spacecraft remained docked to Mir, functioning as a lifeboat for the EO-2 crew, until July 1987 when it returned to Earth carrying Laveykin and the two man crew of Mir EP-1. Romanenko later returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-3 at the end of EO-2.

Command Pilot:

Soyuz 57 TM-2

The Soyuz Space Missions

See Disasters

Study
Research

Space Cosmology

Science Research

About

Science Research

Science Theories

Desk

Site Map

BookShelf

Designed by Nigel G Wilcox

Pages within this section: Soyuz (DD)

Soyuz TM-2

Pages within this section:

Sub-Menu

courtesy: Wikipedia.org

Cosmonauts

Early in the expedition EO-2, the module K-vant-1 was launched to automatically dock with Mir. The docking system, known as the "Igla system", was not behaving as expected. On April 5 the EO-2 crew retreated to the Soyuz TM-2 spacecraft so that they could escape in the event the module got out of control. About 200 m out, the docking system lost its lock on Mir’s aft port antenna. The cosmonauts watched from within Soyuz-TM 2 as the Kvant/ FSM combination passed within 10 m of the station. Following an emergency spacewalk, Kvant fully docked to the station on April 11.

Soyuz TM2 Rollout at Baikonur