Soyuz TM-2

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

21:38:16

Thursday February 5, 1987

Mission Details

Soyuz TM-2

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Soyuz TM-2 was the spacecraft used to launch a long duration crew to the Soviet space station Mir, which was uncrewed at the time. TM-2 was launched in February 1987, and it was first crewed spaceflight of the Soyuz-TM spacecraft, and the second crewed spaceflight to Mir (the first being Soyuz T-15). The crew of the long duration expedition, Mir EO-2, who were launched by TM-2 consisted of Soviet cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Aleksandr Laveykin. The spacecraft remained docked to Mir, functioning as a lifeboat for the EO-2 crew, until July 1987 when it returned to Earth carrying Laveykin and the two man crew of Mir EP-1. Romanenko later returned to Earth in Soyuz TM-3 at the end of EO-2. The Soyuz is a Soviet crewed spacecraft, developed to perform lunar missions with crew. This version called 7K will fly 4 times on the giant launcher N1, and several tens of times on Proton to fly over the Moon, which will be successful during the mission Zond 4. Soyuz will become the first spacecraft to transport living beings on the Moon during the flight of Zond 5, with two turtles. Thereafter, it is adapted to the low orbit and will fly on the Soyuz launcher to supply the Soviet Salyut and Mir stations, and the ISS.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

7,100 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Soyuz U2

Active 1982 to 1995

RKK Energiya logo

Manufacturer

RKK Energiya

Price

$40.00 million

Rocket

Height: 51.32m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 7,150 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,693 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3m

Height: 15.59m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Site 1/5

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

23 hr 32 min

Stats

Soyuz U


478th

Mission

4th

Mission of 1987

RKK Energiya


2077th

Mission

12th

Mission of 1987

1987


13th

Orbital launch attempt