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Russian manned space craft TM-17 lands

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Operator: Rosaviakosmos
COSPAR ID: 1993-043A
SATCAT no 22704
Mission duration:196 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes, 22 seconds
Orbits completed: ~3,070

Soyuz TM-17 was a Russian mission to a space station, it was launched on July 1, 1993. It made more than 3,000 orbits of the planet Earth, and it lasted 196 days and 17 hours.

Crew
Crew size 3 up
2 down
Members
Aleksandr Serebrov
Vasili Tsibliyev
Launching Jean-Pierre Haigneré
Callsign (Sirius)

Start of mission
Launch date July 1, 1993, 14:32:58 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-U2

End of mission
Landing date January 14, 1994, 08:18:20 UTC
Landing site 49.62°N 70.12°E

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