Soyuz-U launched the Progress M-34 cargo freighter to the Mir space station, carrying food, water, oxygen and fuel for the resident EO-23 crew. The craft later caused the June 1997 collision that damaged Mir's Spektr module.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.6 T
- Flight
- 625th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 6 April 1997, 16:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1997-014
- Launches in 1997
- 15th of 89
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