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- From: glennc@cs.sfu.ca (Glenn Chapman)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.news
- Subject: Russian Soyuz TM-16 docks with Mir space station
- Keywords: Russian, Space
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.075947.26050@cs.sfu.ca>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 07:59:47 GMT
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- Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- The Soyuz TM-16 flight to the Commonwealth of Independent States Mir
- complex docked today (Jan. 26th) at the station . The new crew, Manakov and
- Alexander Polishcuk, were launched from the Baikonor Cosmodrome on Jan. 24th.
- Shortly after docking they entered the station to greet the cosmonauts
- Anatoli who have been up for 180 days now, since July 30. Solovyov and
- Avdeyev will be returning in the Soyuz TM-15 capsule on Feb. 1. Manakov and
- Polishcuk will be staying up at least until the French/Russian mission set
- for July.
- The docking itself was of considerable interest. For the first time a
- connection was made with the new docking port on the Kristall module. Soyuz
- dockings to date have taken place on either the front or rear axial ports.
- The Kristall module, a 20 Tonne experimental section launched in 1990, is
- mounted perpendicular to the main axis on the station at the front or ball
- multiport section. Its docking section is special, designed as simpler and
- smaller than the current ones. However it is meant to mate with space craft
- of up to 100 tonnes, such as the Buran shuttle, or the U.S. space shuttles
- (when they carry up a docking adaptor). According to Energia NPO, the
- builders of the Mir complex, several times this year the station will have
- two Soyuz's and a Progress cargo tanker docked to the station at the same
- time. (Radio Moscow, Space News Jan. 11)
- Sorry the launch was not reported, but I was out of the country during
- it.
-
- Glenn Chapman
- School Eng. Science
- Simon Fraser U.
- Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- glennc@cs.sfu.ca
-