Launch from Baikonur; landing 107 km southwest
of Akmola.
Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the
MIR space station on 23.02.1996. Both cosmonauts became the
21st resident crew
after crew exchanging.
Onufriyenko and
Usachyov performed six
EVAs on
15.03.1996 (5h 51m), 20.05.1996 (5h 20m), 24.05.1996 (5h 43m), 30.05.1996 (4h
20m), 06.06.1996 (3h 34m) and 13.06.1996 (5h 42m) carrying out following work:
installation of the telescopic boom, the
MSCA solar
array, the multi-spectral scanner, exchanging materials samples and deploying
of a radar antenna.
Protein crystal growth experiments were done. More
experiments in materials science using high temperture melting oven "Optizon".
The new module "Priroda" arrived on 26.04.1996. Supplies arrived with cargo
spacecraft Progress M-31.
The MIR resident crew was visited by crew of
STS-76. Since that time (24.03.1996)
U.S. astronaut Shannon
Lucid completed the
21st resident
crew.
