Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
105 km northeast of Arkalyk.
Soyuz TM-22 carried the the European
mission "EUROMIR 95". Following a two day solo flight Soyuz TM-22 docked with
the MIR space station on September 05, 1995. The crew became the
20th MIR resident
crew. During the next months joint Russian-German research work were
performed.
EVAs were performed by Sergei
Avdeyev and Thomas
Reiter (first German performing a spacewalk) on October 20,
1995 (5h 16m), by Yuri
Gidzenko and Sergei
Avdeyev on December 08, 1995 (0h 29m) and Yuri
Gidzenko and Thomas
Reiter on February 08, 1996 (3h 05m). New instruments were
installed to install and later retrieve cassettes of the European Space
Exposure Facility experiments (ESEF).
The spaceflight took two month
longer than planned due of missing money for the following mission. It was the
longest space flight of a non Russian to date by Thomas
Reiter.