Soyuz-U launched Soyuz TM-27 from Baikonur carrying cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin plus French astronaut Leopold Eyharts to Mir for the Expedition 25 crew handover and the French PEGASE mission; docked with the station on January 31.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.2 T
- Flight
- 633rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 January 1998, 16:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1998-004
- Launches in 1998
- 5th of 82
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