Jul 22 1987
From The Space Library
The Soviet Union launched into orbit a Soyuz TM-3 with two Soviet cosmonauts and a Syrian space traveler aboard. The liftoff from Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Soviet Kazakhstan, was the Soviet Union's third crew-tended space launch since the U.S. Space Shuttle explosion on January 28, 1986. The Soyuz TM-3, piloted by Alexander Viktorenko and Alexander Alexandrov, was scheduled to dock with the Soviet Mir space station after two days of orbiting around the Earth. The Syrian space traveler, Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Fans, was the second Arab in space. The first was the Saudi Prince Sultan bin Salman, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. Prince Sultan bin Salman was a payload specialist aboard the U.S. Shuttle Discovery in 1985. (H Chron, July 22/87)
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