Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Mir EP-2 was a visiting expedition to the Mir space station conducted in June 1988 by cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev Viktor Savinykh and Aleksandr Aleksandrov. Launched aboard the Soyuz TM-5 spacecraft the crew spent ten days in space before returning to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-4. The mission occurred while the EO-3 crew were aboard Mir.Solovyev commanded the mission with Savinykh as his flight engineer while Bulgarian Aleksandr Panayatov Aleksandrov flew as a research cosmonaut.
