Soyuz TM-9 carried cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Alexander Balandin to the Mir space station for a long-duration expedition that included spacewalks to repair thermal insulation damage on their own Soyuz descent module.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 37th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 11 February 1990, 06:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1990-014
- Launches in 1990
- 14th of 121
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