Soyuz TM-16 was the sixteenth expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir.

[1] The Soyuz-TM crew transports (T - транспортный - Transportnyi - meaning transport, M - модифицированный - Modifitsirovannyi- meaning modified) were fourth generation (1986–2002) Soyuz spacecraft used for ferry flights to the Mir and ISS space stations.

It added to the Soyuz-T new docking and rendezvous, radio communications, emergency and integrated parachute/landing engine systems.

The new Kurs rendezvous and docking system permitted the Soyuz-TM to maneuver independently of the station, without the station making "mirror image" maneuvers to match unwanted translations introduced by earlier models' aft-mounted attitude control.

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