1994-063A
Spacecraft 11K732 No. 69 was assigned to the Soyuz TM-20 mission. Soyuz TM-20 lifted off from pad 1 at Baykonur at 2242:30 UT on 1994 Oct 3 carrying the Mir EO-17 crew. Crew commander was Aleksandr S. Viktorenko of the VVS, making his fourth spaceflight. Flight engineer was Elena V. Kondakova of NPO Energiya. Kondakova was a member of the 1989 group of engineers, and the first woman to be selected for a Russian space mission as a regular crew member (the flights of Tereshkova and Savitskaya being explicit tokenism). The third crew member was Dr. Ulf Merbold of the European Space Agency, representing the Euromir 94 project.
Soyuz TM-20 docked with the PKhO front port of the Mir station at 0028:17 on 1994 Oct 6.
On Jan 11, the Mir crew boarded Soyuz and undocked for a test flight to check out the automatic docking system.
The EO-17 crew, together with Polyakov, entered Soyuz TM-20 for the last time on 1995 Mar 21. Undocking and deorbit were nominal, and Polyakov's 437-day odyssey came to an end 22 km northeast of Arkalyk in Kazakhstan at 0404 on Mar 22.
| Soyuz TM-20 | |||
| Date | Time | Event | Orbit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 Oct 3 | 2242:20 | Launch by Soyuz-U2 | |
| 1994 Oct 6 | 0028:15 | Docked PKhO, manual | |
| 1995 Jan 11 | 0859:40 | Undocked PKhO | |
| Stationkeep at 200m? | |||
| 0927:55 | Redocked PKhO | ||
| 1995 Mar 21 | 2200? | Hatch closed | |
| 1995 Mar 22 | 0043:08 | Undocking | |
| 1995 Mar 22 | 0308:14 | Deorbit burn 259s, 115m/s | |
| 0337 | Modules sep, over Egypt | ||
| 0340 | Reentry, over Cyprus | ||
| 0351 | Main parachute | ||
| 0404:05 | Landed | ||
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