Carried cosmonauts Alexander Volkov and Sergei Krikalev, plus French spationaut Jean-Loup Chretien, to Mir on the Franco-Soviet Aragatz mission. Volkov and Chretien performed a historic international spacewalk lasting nearly six hours before Chretien returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-6.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 30th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 26 November 1988, 15:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1988-104
- Launches in 1988
- 109th of 121
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