\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> September 5, 1989
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 166 days 6 hr 58 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Alexander S Viktorenko, Alexander A Serebrov
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Mission to Mir, unmanned since April; in December crew supervise docking of new module Kvant 2; in January and February they perform five EVAs to carry out maintenance, experiments and test the Soviet manned manoeuvring unit, Ikar-YMK; they return in Soyuz TM-8.