Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
with
Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft 160 km
southeast of Dzheskasgan.
The crew had a unique makeup, with a commander
(Vladimir
Lyakhov) who had been trained to fly a Soyuz TM solo in the
event a rescue ship needed to be sent to recover two cosmonauts from MIR, no
flight
Engineer, and two inexperienced cosmonaut researchers.
Following a
two day solo flight the Soyuz docked with MIR-Kvant-
Soyuz TM-5 on 31.08.1988. Scientific work with the
third resident crew was
done. this included Earth observation, materials sciences and medical research
(including observation of earthquake regions, searching for mineral
ressources). Topographic camera Kate 140, the MKS-M spectrometer, the Spektr
256 analysator and a handcamera were used during the Shamshed experiment.
Medical experiment included studying of movementproblems in minor gravitation.
Polyakov stayed on board and became member of the
third resident
crew.
Landing at the third attempt because of a computer error.
