Status
Success
Soyuz TM-22
Launch Time
Sun Sep 03, 1995 09:00 UTC
Sun Sep 03, 1995 09:00 UTC
Last flight of Soyuz U2.
Rocket
Mission Details
Soyuz TM-22
Soyuz TM-22 was the 23rd crewed spacecraft mission to visit the Soviet Space Station Mir.
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.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 7,100.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
Site 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Stats
1995
52nd orbital launch attempt
Soyuz U
721st mission
8th mission of 1995
702nd successful mission
105th consecutive successful mission