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Mir • Progress 26 | May 29-June 22, 1986 |
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Mir | June 22-26, 1986 | |
| Preparations to receive Soyuz-T 15. Mir maneuvered twice June 24-25, raising its orbit slightly and moving closer to Salyut 7. On June 25 Soyuz-T 15 undocked from Salyut 7 and began the 29-hr journey back to Mir. | |||
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Soyuz-T 15 • Mir | May 23-29, 1986 | |
| The Mayaks return to Mir. Soyuz-T 15 arrived at Mir with a cargo of 350-400 kg of instruments from Salyut 7. On July 3 Kizim surpassed Valeri Ryumin’s record for time spent in space. On July 6 he became the first human to spend a full year in space. The Mayaks spent their last 20 days on Mir conducting Earth observations. | |||
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Mir | July 16, 1986-January 18, 1987 | |
| Mir to remain unmanned until 1987. Shortly after the Mayaks returned to Earth, Soviet sources announced that Mir would not be staffed again in 1986.
Cosmos 1700 fails. In September 1986 the Altair/SR relay satellite Cosmos 1700 ceased operating and drifted off its geosynchronous orbit position. | |||
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Mir • Progress 27 | January 18-February 7, 1987 | |
| Computer problems on Mir. Progress 27 boosted Mir’s mean altitude by 16 km to 345 km on January 26. Alexandr Laveikin, who was soon to be launched on Soyuz-TM 2 to Mir, told an interviewer during this period that only one of Mir’s computers was functional.[1] | |||
2.9.3.2 Mir Principal Expedition 2 (a)
Yuri Romanenko, Alexandr Laveikin
Crew code name—Tamyr
Soyuz-TM 2, February 5-July 30, 1987
176 days in space
See Mir Principal Expedition 2 (b) note.
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Soyuz-TM 2 • Mir • Progress 27 | February 7-23, 1987 |
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Soyuz-TM 2 • Mir | February 23-March 5, 1987 |
For Icon Key, see page 76
- ↑ Nicholas Johnson, The Soviet Year in Space: 1987, Teledyne Brown Engineering, 1988, p. 84.
