Monday, January 29, 2018

Soyuz TM-27 launched 1998

Soyuz TM-27 crew

 
Mission patch

Soyuz TM-27, the 33rd expedition to Mir, launched on January 29, 1998, carried two cosmonauts and one French astronaut into space.  Its crew consisted of Commander Talgat Musabayev, Flight Engineer Nikolai Budarin and Research Cosmonaut Leopold Eyharts.

The crew carried out a number of routine experiements, repaired the Spektr solar panel and installed a new VDU station orientation system.

Musabayev and Budarin returned with Soyuz TM-27 in August 1998 but Eyharts hitched a ride home in February 1998.


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