Launch from Baikonur; 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. It
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 third attempt because of a computer error.
