The uncrewed Progress 42 cargo spacecraft, launched from Baikonur and docked with the Kvant-1 module of the Mir space station on 7 May 1990 to resupply the resident crew before undocking on 27 May.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 1990, 20:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1990-041
- Launches in 1990
- 43rd of 121
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