Sigmund Jähn and Asteroid (17737) Sigmundjahn - Potsdam, Germany
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Bernd das Brot Team
N 52° 22.823 E 013° 03.928
33U E 368327 N 5805107
An asteroid named after the first German astronaut.
Waymark Code: WMT7K0
Location: Brandenburg, Germany
Date Posted: 10/09/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Bernd das Brot Team
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This statue shows busts of Soviet cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky and East German Cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn.

The busts are placed on a granite pedestal bearing the inscription Gemeinsam auf der Erde und im All (Together on Earth and in Space).

Launched on August 26, 1978, the two cosmonauts performed the first joint Russian-German space flight, the Intercosmos mission of Soviet space craft Soyuz 31, docking with the Salyut 6 space station for one week.

They returned to Earth on September 3, 1978 with space craft Soyuz 29.

On January 27, 1998, Asteroid 1998 BF14 was discovered at the Drebach Observatory in Germany. Since the observatory is only a few miles away from Sigmund Jähn's birth place, the asteroid was named (17737) Sigmundjahn in 2001.

The statue is placed near the Helmert-Tower in Potsdam's Science Park.

The Soyuz 31 mission was mainly a geodesic survey mission, using the East-German built Multispectral Camera MKF-6.

The Helmert-Tower, belonging to the German Research Centre for Geosciences is a significant geodesic landmark.

Picture (c) spacefacts.de

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