Uncrewed Progress 38 cargo craft launched to resupply the Mir space station with fuel, water, and supplies for the resident Mir EO-3 crew. The mission also carried an early test of a Buran ejection-seat capsule mounted in place of the launch escape tower.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.2 T
- Flight
- 29th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1988, 23:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1988-083
- Launches in 1988
- 87th of 121
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