Soyuz TM-13

Soyuz TM-13

COSPAR ID	1991-069A
SATCAT no.	21735
Mission duration	175 days, 2 hours, 51 minutes, 44 seconds
Orbits completed	~2,730
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft	Soyuz 7K-STM No. 63
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-TM
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	7,150 kilograms (15,760 lb)
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Alexander Volkov
Launching	Toktar Aubakirov Franz Viehböck
Landing	Sergei Krikalev Klaus-Dietrich Flade
Callsign	Донба́сс (Donbass)
Start of mission
Launch date	2 October 1991, 05:59:38 (1991-10-02UTC05:59:38Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U2
Launch site	Baikonur Cosmodrome
End of mission
Landing date	25 March 1992, 08:51:22 (1992-03-25UTC08:51:23Z) UTC
Landing site	near Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	195 kilometres (121 mi)
Apogee altitude	232 kilometres (144 mi)
Inclination	51.7 degrees
Period	92.4 minutes
Docking with Mir
Docking date	4 October 1991, 07:38:42 UTC
Undocking date	25 March 1992, 05:29:03 UTC
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz TM-12 Soyuz TM-14 →

Soyuz TM-13 was the 13th expedition to the Mir space station.^[1] Lasting from October 1991 to March 1992, the mission included cosmonauts from Austria and the soon-to-be independent region of Kazakhstan, as the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991. The launch ceremony at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakh SSR was attended by the Soviet Premier Ivan Silaev, the President of the Kazakh SSR Nursultan Nazarbayev, and the Chancellor of Austria Franz Vranitzky. Before the launch, for the first time, President Nazarbayev received the launch report from cosmonaut Tokhtar Aubakirov in the Kazakh language.^[2]