Soyuz-U2 launched Soyuz TM-18 from Baikonur, carrying commander Viktor Afanasyev, flight engineer Yuri Usachov and researcher Valeri Polyakov to Mir, where Polyakov began the 437-day stay that remains the longest single human spaceflight on record.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 67th
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 8 January 1994, 10:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1994-001
- Launches in 1994
- 1st of 93
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