Soyuz TM-3 carried cosmonauts Aleksandr Viktorenko, Aleksandr Aleksandrov, and Syrian Muhammed Faris—the first Syrian in space—from Baikonur to Mir. Faris and Viktorenko flew the short EP-1 visit while Aleksandrov replaced the ill EO-2 flight engineer Laveykin.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 22 July 1987, 01:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1987-063
- Launches in 1987
- 67th of 114
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