Soyuz T-12
Soyuz T-12
| Mission Statistics
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz T-12
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| Call Sign: | Pamir (Pamirs)
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| Number of Crew Members: | 3
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| Launch: | July 17, 1984
17:40:54 UTC
Baikonur LC31
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| Landing: | July 29, 1984
12:55:30 UTC
140 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
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| Duration: | 11 days 19 hours 14 minutes 36 seconds
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| Number of Orbits: | 186
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Crew
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 7020 kg
- Perigee: 192 km
- Apogee: 218 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 minutes
Mission Highlights
7th expedition to Salyut 7.
Volk was a glimpse of things which might have been: he was a Buran shuttle
program pilot being flown in space to prove he would be able to pilot Buran
back to Earth after an extended stay in space.
The Pamirs, the second Visiting Expedition to visit the Mayaks, included veteran cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Buran shuttle program cosmonaut Igor Volk, and Svetlana Savitskaya. On July 25 Dzhanibekov and Savitskaya performed a 3 hr, 30 min EVA, during which they tested the URI multipurpose tool. They cut, welded, soldered, and coated metal samples. During the Pamirs? stay, the six cosmonauts aboard Salyut 7 also conducted Rezonans tests and collected station air samples.
