\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> March 13, 1986
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 125 days 1 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Leonid D Kizim, Vladimir A Solovyov
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> First mission to new space station Mir (meaning 'Peace'), with multiple docking module, which will provide the nucleus of an expanding space complex; on May 15 crew transfer to Salyut 7 for a 12-day visit; they become the last to visit Salyut; back at Mir, they perform EVAs to practise space assembly techniques; on July 2 Kizim becomes the first cosmonaut to accumulate a year's experience in space.