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Mir EO-12

Mir EO-12
Mission type Mir expedition
Mission duration 188 days, 21 hours, 39 minutes, 31 seconds
Orbits completed 2989
Expedition
Space Station Mir
Began 27 July 1992 (1992-07-27)
Ended 1 February 1993 (1993-03)
Arrived aboard Soyuz TM-15
Departed aboard Soyuz TM-15
Crew
Crew size Two
Members Anatoly Solovyev
Sergei Avdeyev
Callsign Spring
EVAs 4
Long-term Mir expeditions
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Mir EO-12 (Russian: Мир ЭО-12, also known as Principal Expedition 12) was the twelfth manned expedition to the space station Mir, lasting from July 1992 until February 1993. The crew, consisting of Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Sergei Avdeyev launched aboard Soyuz TM-15 on 27 July 1992 with French Research Cosmonaut Michel Tognini. After remaining on board Mir for just over six months, Solovyev and Avdeyev returned aboard the same spacecraft on 1 February 1993.

Their mission focused on geophysics, materials science, biotechnology, astronomy and medical experiments. Soyuz TM-15 set a Soyuz spacecraft on orbit endurance record.

This crew flew the Soyuz TM-16 spacecraft.

The Mir EO-12 crew were launched aboard Soyuz TM-15 on 27 July 1992 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome together with CNES spationaut Michel Tognini of France. They were inserted into a 190 x 200 km, 51.6° inclination orbit. After rendezvous manoeuvring they docked they with Mir in it's 405 x 410 km orbit two days later on 29 July.

For the next two weeks the scientific work of the EO-11 crew (Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr Kaleri) continued together with the programme of Michel Tognini's Antares mission. They departed Mir aboard Soyuz TM-14 on 9 August, leaving the EO-12 crew to continue operations.


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