The landing of Soyuz TM-12

In the night of the 9. to the 10. October 1991 ascended the commandant of the cadre Anatoli Arzebarskij, the board engineer of the guest crew Toktar Aubakirov and the Austrian scientific cosmonaut Franz Viehboeck from the space station MIR into the space transporter Soyuz TM-12, which had allready docked on the 20. May 1991 at 18:15 CET with an English-Soviet crew at the space station MIR. The docking off of Soyuz TM-12 from the MIR resulted on the 10th Oktober 1991 at 01:52 CET. The landing of Soyuz TM-12 was on 10th October 1991 at 05:12 CET (08:12 local time) 58 km eastern of Arkalyk (Kazakhstan). The flight routing center had radio and TV-contact with the crews on board of MIR and Soyuz TM-12 from docking off to the landing of Soyuz TM-12 as follows: 22:45 Closing of the hatch 22:45 - 23:40 Check of the impermeability of the docking lug 23:40 - 00:40 Activating of the spacesuits, change for the crew into the landing machine, Closing of the hatch between the cre unit and the landing machine 00:09 - 00:27 Radio communication with the crew during the 32307th orbit of the space station MIR 00:40 - 01:52 Check of the impermeability of the spacesuits, check of the impermeability of the hatch between crew unit and the landing machine 01:39 - 02:03 Radio communication with the crew during the 32308th orbit of the space station MIR 01:46 - 02:01 TV-transmission from the outside fixed camera of Soyuz TM-12 01:52 - 01:56 D O C K I N G    O F F 03:07 - 03:38 Radio communication with the crew during the 32309th orbit of the space station MIR 03:15 - 03:35 TV-transmission from the outside fixed camera and the flight parameter of the space transporter Soyuz TM-12 04:08 - 04:46 Radio communication with the crew over relay satellite 04:14:14 Switch-on of the brake engine, operating time 259,3 sec 04:45 Seperation from the crew unit of the space transporter 04:45 Seperation from the landing machine 04:48 Entry of the landing machine into the earth atmosphere 04:50 Start of the controlled descent 04:50 - 04:55 Break of the radio contact to the landing machine caused by ionic plasma creation 04:57 Opening of the parachute 05:12 L A N D I N G of Soyuz TM-12 58 km eastern from the city Arkalyk (Kazakhstan) So the six days lasting habitation of the Austrian-Soviet crew on the space station MIR ended.

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