Pégase

Mission name: Soyuz TM-27
Call sign: Kristall
Number of crew members: 3

Launch:
29 January 1998, 16:33:42 UT, Baikonur
Landing:
25 January 1998, 05:24:44 UTC, 47° 57' 7 N, 39° 37' 50 E near Dzhezkazgan
Duration: 207 days, 12 hours, 51 minutes, 2 seconds
Number of orbits: ~3 284

CREW

Launched

• Talgat Musabayev (2) - Commander
• Nikolai Budarin (2) - Flight Engineer
• Léopold Eyharts (1) - Research Cosmonaut - France

Landed

• Talgat Musabayev (2) - Commander
• Nikolai Budarin (2) - Flight Engineer
• Yuri Baturin (1) - Research Cosmonaut

(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission

MISSION HIGHLIGHTS

• Docked with Mir
• Exchange part of crew
• Carried out French mission Pégase
• Conducted routine science experiments
• EVA schedule:
  • 3 March 1998 (aborted due to faulty hatch)
  • 1 April 1998 (6h 40m)
  • 6 April 1998 (4h 23m)
  • 11 April 1998 (6h 25m)
  • 17 April 1998 (6h 32m)
  • 22 Arpil 1998 (6h 21m)

Over the course of these five walks, the cosmonauts repaired the Spektr solar panel and installed a new VDU station orientation system.

The Pégase mission onboard the Russian Space Station Mir successfully took place from 29 January to 19 February 1998. During this Franco-Russian mission, Eyharts performed a number of experiments, thus completing the results of the Cassiopeia mission.

Eyharts landed on 19 February 1998 with Soyuz TM-26-spacecraft.

Launch from Baikonur; landing 40 km southeast of Dzheskasgan; docking on MIR spacestation; Musabayev and Budarin together with astronaut Andy Thomas became the 25^th resident crew of MIR; French mission Pégase.

Common scientific experiments. A planned EVA of Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin at 3 March 1998 was cancelled, because the hatch could not be opened and all wrenches broke.

Later five EVA's by both cosmonauts on 1 April 1998 (6 hours 40 minutes), 6 April 1998 (4 hours 23 minutes), 11 April 1998 (6 hours 25 minutes), 17 April 1998 (6 hours 32 minutes), 22 April 1998 (6 hours 21 minutes), repairing the damaged Spektr solar panel and installing the new VDU station orientation engine into the Sofora boom.