MIR: Expedition 7
(EO-7)

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 69 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the MIR space station on 03.08.1990. 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. An EVA on 29.10.1990 (3h 45m) with repairing work on the damaged hatch of Kvant2 module (only partly successful) was performed.

When the crew returned to Earth, the Japanese cosmonaut Akiyama (launched with Soyuz TM-11 spacecraft) was onboard.