Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; 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.