Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 85 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the Soyuz TM-12-Kvant1-MIR-Kvant2-Kristall space station on 04.10.1991. Viehböck became the first Austrian in space. As part of the AUSTROMIR 91 program the crew performed scientific experiments with the ninth resident crew. The flight was unusual for carrying no flight engineer. The Austrians paid $7 million to fly Viehböck to MIR, and the Kazakh cosmonaut flew partly in an effort to encourage newly independent Kazakhstan to continue to permit launchings from Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Main goal of the mission was the partly exchange of the MIR resident crew. Volkov and Krikalyov became the tenth MIR resident crew. Both cosmonauts performed an EVA on 20.02.1992 (4h 12m) to dismantle a platform and for recovery of experiments.

Aubakirov and Viehböck landed on 10.10.1991 at 04:12 UTC with Soyuz TM-12 spacecraft.