MIR: Expedition 1
(EO-1)

Launch from Baikonur; landing 55 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Docking on new space station MIR; first resident crew of MIR.

The first work was to make the station working and to unload the two Progress 25 and 26 freighters, launched after their arrival.

On 05.05.1986, they undocked from MIR for a day long journey to the Salyut 7 space station and stayed there for 50 days as sixth resident crew. After done work returning to MIR on 26. June 1986. It was the first transfer from one space station to an other space station in space history.

When back on MIR Kizim and Soloviyov installed there some systems taken from Salyut and they performed some scientific experiments. One of these experiments was GEOEX 8, in which some areas of the German Democratic Republic were explored by an airplane, a satellite and from space. This was useful for agriculture, geology and environmental protection.

Before returning back to Earth the crew put he MIR into an automatic working modus.