Soyuz-U2 launched Soyuz TM-12 from Baikonur carrying commander Anatoly Artsebarsky, flight engineer Sergei Krikalev, and British researcher Helen Sharman to Mir under the UK-sponsored Project Juno, making Sharman the first Briton in space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 48th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 18 May 1991, 12:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1991-034
- Launches in 1991
- 35th of 91
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