Feb 6 1987
From The Space Library
Space News for this day. (1MB PDF)
Two Soviet astronauts were launched aboard the new space vehicle, Soyuz TM-2, toward a rendezvous with the orbiting Mir space station. This was the first crew-tended Soviet space launch since July 1986 and only the second launch in the Russian human space program to be shown live on Soviet television. Western experts speculated that the two astronauts would aim for a long duration flight of at least six months. Mission commander Yuri V. Romanenko and flight engineer Alexander Laveikin were expected to begin link up operations with the Mir space station on February 7. (NY Times, Feb 6/87; W Post, Feb 6/87; P Inq, Feb 6/87; C Trib, Feb 7/87)
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