Soyuz TM-19

USSR

Manned Flight nº: 170

Earth orbit Flight nº: 167

USSR Flight nº: 79

Launch & orbit data:

Designation	23139 / 94036A
Launch date - time	01 Jul 1994 - 12:24:50 UT
Launch site	Baikonur, LC1
Launch vehicle	Soyuz 11A511U2
OKB name - S/Nº	Soyuz 7K-STM (11F732) s/nº 68
Mass (kg)	7.150
Call Sign	Agat (Agate)
Earth orbit on :
- Perigee / Apogee	393 x 395 km
- Inclination	51.65 deg
- Period	92.44 min

Docking & landing data:

Docking date - time	03 Jul 1994 - 13:55:01 UT
Target spacecraft/port	Mir/Kvant
Undocking date - time	04 Nov 1994 - 08:31:30 UT
Deorbit burn date - time	04 Nov 1994 - 10:22:48 UT separate: 10:51:05 UT re-enter: 10:56:13 UT
Landing date - time	04 Nov 1994 - 11:18:26 UT
Landing location	88 km NE of Arkalyk (50° 54' N, 67° 36' E)
Flight Duration (d:hr:min)	125:22:53
Nbr orbits
Landing crew	Malenchenko, Musabayev, Merbold (crew TM-19 & TM-20)

Launch Crew (EO-16):

Nr.	Surname	Given name	Job	Duration	Orbits
1	Malenchenko	Yuri Ivanovich	Commander	125d 22h 53m	1993
2	Musabayev	Talgat Amangeldyyevich	Flight engineer	125d 22h 53m	1993

Backup Crew

Nr.	Name	Job
1	Viktorenko, Aleksandr S.	Commander
2	Kondakova, Yelena V.	Flight engineer

2nd Backup crew: Dezhurov Vladimir N. & Kaleri Aleksandr Y.

Mission details:

resident crew partly exchanged; both cosmonauts and Doctor cosmonaut Polyakov became the 16th resident crew; the crew conducted medical experiments (research of problems of weightlessness in long-term-mission); experiments in materials science; both cosmonauts performed two EVA's on 09.09.1994 (5h 06m) and 14.09.1994 (6h 01m), in which the stations external insulation was repaired; many problems during this mission, which finally ended with the first successful manual docking of a Progress supply ship on the station by Malenchenko.
Mir Expedition EO-16. Soyuz TM-19 docked at the rear port of the Kvant module (vacated by Progress M-23 on July 2) at 13:55:01 GMT on July 3. Soyuz TM-19 undocked from Mir at 07:29 GMT on November 4. The Soyuz instrument module (PAO, priborno-agregatniy otsek) fired its deorbit engine, and was jettisoned together with the orbital module (BO, bitovoy otsek) at 10:51 GMT, with entry interface for the descent module (SA, spuskaemiy apparat) at 10:54. It landed 170 km north-east of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan on 1994 November 4 at 11:18 GMT.

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur, signed by crew and backup, send registrated.

Landing cancel Arkalyk with TP taxe cancel, signed by crew.

Cosmic Mail: Cover on board of Mir, with blue Mir boardcancel, date EVA-1 boardcancel: 090994 (EO-16), special red cancel signed by the crew. Cover numered: 12-AB

Certificate insite precident cover, with Mir boardcancel and 2 special cancels, undocking date boardcancel: 140194, signed by the crew.

Ref.: #7, #8, #10, #16, #207, #210 - update: 30.01.19

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