Aug 29 1988
From The Space Library
A Soviet Proton launch vehicle carrying a Soyuz TM-6 spacecraft, with three cosmonauts on board, was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The three-man Soyuz crew, which included an Afghan and a Soviet physician, was scheduled to join a two-man crew aboard the Mir space station on the week-long mission. The physician, Valery Polyakov, was to remain aboard Mir after the departure of his Soyuz crew-mates and continue monitoring the health of the Mir cosmonauts, who were in the eighth month of a record-breaking year-long endurance mission. (FBIS-Sov-88-168, Aug 30/88; SSR 1988 075A; UPI, Aug 30/88; W Post, Aug 30/88; CSM, Aug 30/88; P Inq, Aug 30/88)
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