Launched Kristall, the fourth module added to the Mir space station, carrying materials-processing furnaces and biological research equipment. Originally planned for March, it finally docked with Mir on 10 June after a thruster problem delayed the approach.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.5 T
- Flight
- 24th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 31 May 1990, 10:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1990-048
- Launches in 1990
- 50th of 121
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