Soyuz TM-8 carried cosmonauts Alexander Viktorenko and Alexander Serebrov to Mir for a 166-day expedition, docking two days after launch and going on to perform five spacewalks plus station maintenance and research work.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 5 September 1989, 21:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1989-071
- Launches in 1989
- 72nd of 102
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