\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> March 17, 1992
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> Flade - 7 days 21 hr 57 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Alexander S Viktorenko, Alexander Y Kaleri, Klaus-Dietrich Flade
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Mission to Mir; Viktorenko and Kaleri remain in orbit, while Krikalev (launched on Soyuz TM-12) and Volkov (Soyuz TM-13) return in Soyuz TM-13 with Flade; both Krikalev and Volkov lifted off from the USSR but return to an independent state in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); cosmonaut Flade is German.