Carried cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and research doctor Valeri Polyakov, plus Afghanistan's first cosmonaut Abdul Ahad Mohmand, to Mir. Lyakhov and Mohmand returned aboard Soyuz TM-5 after a week, while Polyakov stayed to join the Mir EO-3 long-duration crew.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 1988, 04:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1988-075
- Launches in 1988
- 79th of 121
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