Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Soyuz TM-29 was a Russian manned spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz 11A511U rocket. It docked with Mir on February 22 at 05:36 GMT with Cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev of Russia Jean-Pierre Haigneré of France and Ivan Bella of Slovakia aboard. Since two crew seats had been sold (to Slovakia and France) Afanasyev was the only Russian cosmonaut aboard. This meant that Russian engineer Avdeyev already aboard Mir would have to accept a double-length assignment.
