Carried Soyuz TM-29 with cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev and Jean-Pierre Haigneré alongside Ivan Bella, who became the first Slovak in space, on a mission to dock with and crew-rotate aboard the Mir space station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 638th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 February 1999, 04:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1999-007
- Launches in 1999
- 7th of 78
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