[1] It included an astronaut from Germany, and was the first Russian Soyuz mission after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Klaus Dietrich Flade became the second German to visit a space station when he reached Mir with the Vityaz crew.

The first was Sigmund Jähn of East Germany, who visited Salyut 6 in 1978.

Flade conducted 14 German experiments as part of Germany's preparation for participation in the Freedom and Columbus space station projects.

Suffered a landing system malfunction, causing its descent module to turn over.