Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Soyuz TM-5 the fifth cosmonaut-carrying spacecraft to visit the Russian Space Station Mir. It was launched on June 7 1988 carrying the Mir EP-2 mission’s three-person crew. This week-long stay on Mir occurred during the third long-duration Mir expedition Mir EO-3. The crew of EP-2 returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-4 while the TM-5 spacecraft remained docked to Mir acting as the lifeboat for the long-duration crew.
