\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> November 26, 1988
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> Chretien - 24 days 18 hr 8 min Volkov, Krikalev - 151 days 11 hr 3 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Alexander A Volkov, Sergei Krikalev, Jean-Loup Chretien
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Mission to Mir, joining residents Titov and Manarov; the second flight on a Soviet craft of Frenchman Chretien, who becomes the first non-Soviet to make an EVA from a Soviet craft; he returns in Soyuz TM-6 with record-breakers Titov and Manarov; Volkov and Krikalev remain in orbit, returning in TM-7 in April 1989 with TM-6's Polyakov.