Launch from Baikonur; landing 136 km east of
Dzheskasgan; Mission MIR`92.
Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz
docked with the
Soyuz TM-13-Kvant1-MIR-Kristall-Kvant2 complex on 19.03.1992.
As part of the MIR`92 program Klaus-Dietrich
Flade was involved in scientific experiments with the
tenth MIR resident crew.
Main
goal of the mission was to exchange the resident crew.
Viktorenko and
Kaleri became the eleventh resident crew. It was the first
mission after the disolution of the USSR and the first Russian spaceflight. In
addition it was the first joined spaceflight Russia-Germany.
Viktorenko and
Kaleri performed an
EVA on
08.07.1992 (2h 03m), inspecting gyrodyne orientation flywheels.