Crew

Mission highlights

Commander Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Musabayev, spaceflight
rookies, were to have been launched with veteran cosmonaut Gennadi
Strekalov, who would have returned to Earth with Viktor Afanaseyev and Yuri
Usachyov in Soyuz-TM 18 after a few days on Mir. However, cancellation of
one of two Progress-M

Progress spacecraft

The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. The spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft during its flight but upon docking with a space station, it allows astronauts inside, hence it is classified manned by the manufacturer. It was derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, and is...

 cargo ships scheduled to resupply Mir

Mir

Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...

 during the Agat
crew’s stay meant Strekalov’s couch had to carry supplies. The result was an
unusual all-rookie flight. Docking occurred without incident on July 3. On
November 3, Musabayev, Malenchenko, and Merbold undocked in Soyuz-TM
19 and backed 190 m from Mir. They then activated the Kurs automatic
approach system, which successfully redocked the spacecraft. The cosmonauts
then transferred back to Mir. The test was related to the difficulties Soyuz-TM
20 and Progress-M 24 experienced during their automatic approaches. Final
undocking and reentry the following day occurred without incident.

Mission accomplishments

• Docked with Mir
  Mir
  Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...
  
  
• Exchange part of crew
• Conducted medical experiments
• Conducted materials experiments
• Both cosmonauts perform EVA 09.09.1994 (5h 6m) to repair station's external insulation
• Both cosmonauts repeat EVA on 14.09.1994 (6h 1m) for same purpose
• First successful manual docking of a Progress
  Progress spacecraft
  The Progress is a Russian expendable freighter spacecraft. The spacecraft is an unmanned resupply spacecraft during its flight but upon docking with a space station, it allows astronauts inside, hence it is classified manned by the manufacturer. It was derived from the Soyuz spacecraft, and is...
  
  supply ship