MIR: Expedition 14
(EO-14)

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 215 km west of Karaganda / 180 km southwest of Tselinograd.

It was the French Mission ALTAIR. Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR space station on 03.07.1993. It followed a common scientific work with the 13th resident crew. After returning to Earth of the 13th crew (together with Haigneré), Tsibliyev and Serebrov became the 14th MIR resident crew. They performed experiments in materials science.

Tsibliyev and Serebrov performed five EVAs on 16.09.1993 (4h 18m), 20.09.1993 (3h 14m), 28.09.1993 (1h 52m), 22.10.1993 (0h 38m) and 29.10.1993 (4h 12m), in which the Rapana truss was installed and several experiment packages were retrieved.

During the separation of the Soyuz the TsUP then lost communications with MIR and Soyuz TM-17. The steering had to be made manually. During that the Soyuz hit the MIR. The MIR cosmonauts did not feel the impact, though the station's guidance system registered angular velocity and switched to free flying mode. But all in all there were no serious damages.