Progress M-6 was an uncrewed cargo craft that resupplied the Mir space station, delivering replacement life-support equipment. Launched from Baikonur, it docked with Mir on January 16, 1991, undocked in March, and burned up on reentry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.7 T
- Flight
- 46th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 14 January 1991, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1991-002
- Launches in 1991
- 2nd of 91
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