Soyuz TM-23 launched cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yury Usachov to become Mir's 21st resident crew, docking two days later at the Kvant module port for a stay that lasted through September 1996.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 617th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 21 February 1996, 12:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1996-011
- Launches in 1996
- 12th of 77
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