Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
100 km northwest of Arkalyk.
Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz
docked with the MIR space station on 29.07.1992. First there have been joint
work with the
eleventh resident crew.
Soloviyov and
Avdeyev became then the twelfth MIR resident crew
During the French MIR
Antares
mission, which lasted two weeks, 11 experiments were performed in the fields of
technology, physics and medicine. The experiments included crystal growth
experiments, fluid dynamics experiments.
Both cosmonauts performed four
EVAs on
03.09.1992 (3h 56m), 07.09.1992 (5h 08m), 11.09.1992 (5h 44m) and 15.09.1992
(3h 33m), to install the
VDU
thruster pod on the Sofora girder and to install the Kurs docking system
antenna on the Kristall module.