Soyuz TM-13
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Soyuz TM-13 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev during his extended stay in orbit through the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Soyuz TM-13 canonical | 1 |
| Soyuz TM-13 mission | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7918692 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Soyuz TM-13 Context triple: [Sergei K. Krikalev, spaceMission, Soyuz TM-13]
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A.
Soyuz TM-12
Soyuz TM-12 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried British astronaut Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space.
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B.
Soyuz TM-7
Soyuz TM-7 was a late-1980s Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station, notable for carrying cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev as part of its crew.
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C.
Soyuz TM-23
Soyuz TM-23 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft mission used to transport cosmonauts to the Mir space station in the mid-1990s.
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D.
Soyuz TM-21
Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
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E.
Soyuz T-15
Soyuz T-15 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for inaugurating operations on the Mir space station while also visiting the aging Salyut 7 station in a unique dual-docking flight.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Soyuz TM-13 Target entity description: Soyuz TM-13 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev during his extended stay in orbit through the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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A.
Soyuz TM-12
Soyuz TM-12 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried British astronaut Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space.
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B.
Soyuz TM-7
Soyuz TM-7 was a late-1980s Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station, notable for carrying cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev as part of its crew.
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C.
Soyuz TM-23
Soyuz TM-23 was a Russian crewed Soyuz spacecraft mission used to transport cosmonauts to the Mir space station in the mid-1990s.
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D.
Soyuz TM-21
Soyuz TM-21 was a Russian crewed spacecraft mission notable for carrying U.S. astronaut Norman E. Thagard to the Mir space station as part of early Shuttle-Mir cooperation.
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E.
Soyuz T-15
Soyuz T-15 was a Soviet crewed spacecraft mission notable for inaugurating operations on the Mir space station while also visiting the aging Salyut 7 station in a unique dual-docking flight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Soyuz-TM spacecraft mission
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crewed spaceflight mission ⓘ |
| associatedProgram | Mir program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callsign | Agat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carriedVisitingResearchCosmonaut |
Franz Viehböck
NERFINISHED
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Toktar Aubakirov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commander | Aleksandr Volkov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewExchangeFunction |
delivered new Mir resident crew members
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returned previous Mir crew to Earth ⓘ |
| crewMember |
Aleksandr Volkov
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Franz Viehböck NERFINISHED ⓘ Toktar Aubakirov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crewSizeAtLanding | 3 ⓘ |
| crewSizeAtLaunch | 3 ⓘ |
| dockedTo | Mir core module NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dockingDate | 1991-10-04 ⓘ |
| dockingPort | forward port of Mir core module ⓘ |
| fundingArrangement |
commercially funded Austrian flight
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commercially funded Kazakh flight ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
last Mir crewed launch of the Soviet Union era
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mission spanned dissolution of the Soviet Union ⓘ |
| internationalParticipation |
Austrian
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Kazakh ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1992-03-25 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kazakhstan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchCountry | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1991-10-02 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 1/5 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchVehicle | Soyuz-U2 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| launchYear | 1991 ⓘ |
| missionDestination | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| missionDuration | about 175 days ⓘ |
| missionType | crew transport to space station ⓘ |
| nextMission | Soyuz TM-14 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operator |
Roskosmos
NERFINISHED
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Soviet space program NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| orbitsCompleted | over 2700 ⓘ |
| previousMission | Soyuz TM-12 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedLongDurationCrewMember | Sergei Krikalev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedLongDurationCrewMemberRole | transport segment of Krikalev’s extended Mir stay ⓘ |
| spaceAgencyInvolved |
Austrian Space Agency
NERFINISHED
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Kazakh SSR space authorities ⓘ RKA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spacecraftReturned | Soyuz TM-13 descent module ⓘ |
| spacecraftType | Soyuz-TM NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spaceStationVisited | Mir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| undockingDate | 1992-03-25 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Soyuz TM-13 Description of subject: Soyuz TM-13 was a 1991 Soviet crewed spacecraft mission to the Mir space station that notably carried cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev during his extended stay in orbit through the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Soyuz TM-13 mission