Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
69 km northeast of Arkalyk.
Following a two day solo flight
Soyuz TM-10
docked with the MIR space station on August 03, 1990. The cosmonauts became the
seventh resident crew of MIR space station. Scientific work (astrophysical,
geophysical, Earth observation, space materials science, biological and
biotechnological research and experiments) performed in the
Soyuz
TM-10-Kvant-MIR-Kvant2-Kristall complex. But they also had to do
maintenance and repairing work. Supplies with cargo space ships Progress M-4
and M-5 arrived at the station. Progress M-5 arrived at the station on
September 29, 1990. It carried television equipment for the upcoming joint
Soviet-Japanese mission. It was also the first Progress-M equipped with a
Raduga return capsule.
The only
EVA
in this mission was performed on October 29, 1990 (3h 45m). Gennadi
Manakov and Gennadi
Strekalov removed thermal insulation. They discovered that
the hatch was beyond their ability to repair. They attached a device to the
hatch to allow it to close properly.
When the crew returned to Earth,
the Japanese cosmonaut Toyohiro
Akiyama (launched with
Soyuz TM-11
spacecraft) was onboard.
