Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
30 km southeast of Arkalyk.
Following a two day solo flight the Soyuz
docked with the MIR space station on 07.08.1997. Both cosmonauts and Mike
Foale became the
24th resident crew.
First
EVA by
Soloviyov and
Vinogradov on 22.08.1997 (3h 16m) into the module Spektr to
connect new cables and mount a new hatch.
Second
EVA by
Soloviyov and
Foale on 06.09.1997 (7h 0m) for more repairing work.
The main computer was exchanged during the docking of
STS-86.
Both cosmonauts
performed more
EVAs on 20.10.1997
(6h 38m), 03.11.1997 (6h 04m) and 06.11.1997 (6h 12m) into the module Spektr.
The hatch was repaired during an
EVA on
08.01.1998 (3h 06m) by both cosmonauts.
Soloviyov and new reasearch cosmonaut Dave
Wolf
(replaced
Foale) performed the final
EVA on
14.01.1998 (3h 52m) to inspect the station interior.