Launch from Baikonur; landing 168 km southeast
of Dzheskasgan.
Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with
the MIR space station on 12.02.1997.
Tsibliyev and
Lazutkin became together with Jerry
Linenger the
23rd MIR resident
crew. The crew performed common scientific experiments together with
Ewald during mission EUROMIR 97.
On the 14th day a
fire onboard the MIR happened. The cosmonauts were able to quench it.
EVA by
Tsibliyev and
Linenger on 29.04.1997 (4h 48m) to mount and recovery of
experiments. Later an oxygen cleaning-aparature failed. The crew was visited by
STS 84-crew (17 - 22.05.1997).
Collision with a Progress-freighter with a heavy damage of the Spektr
module. Spares were brought with the Progress M-35 cargo spacecraft to the
space station. Several more failures (energy, oxygen-generators; heart problems
of
Commander
Tsibliyev). The Soyuz landing rockets failed to fire on
touchdown, so the crew performed one of the roughest landings in space
history.
