A Soyuz-U2 rocket launched the uncrewed Progress M-9 cargo craft from Baikonur to resupply the Mir space station with fuel, food, and supplies, undocking after about six weeks in October 1991.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 10 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 20 August 1991, 22:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1991-057
- Launches in 1991
- 59th of 91
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