Soyuz TM-5 carried cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Viktor Savinykh, plus Bulgarian researcher Alexander Alexandrov, to Mir for the Shipka program's Mir EP-2 visiting mission of joint materials-science and biomedical experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 7 June 1988, 14:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1988-048
- Launches in 1988
- 49th of 121
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