Date (UTC)

Time (UTC)

Event

1988 Jan 20

22:51

Progress 34 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 185 x 258 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination

1988 Jan 23

00:09

Progress 34 docks at the Mir complex Kvant docking port - orbit is 334 x 355 kilometres

1988 Feb 26

09:30

Titov and Manarov begin a space walk to remove two sections from the solar panel erected by Romanenko and Laveikin 1987 June 16 - they replace them with new cells, some of which are instrumented in order to study their degradation, the retrieved sections will be studied

1988 Feb 26

13:55

Titov and Manarov complete their space walk after 4 hours 25 minutes (only three minutes longer than planned)

1988 Mar 4

03:40

Progress 34 undocks from Mir

1988 Mar 4

06:45

Progress 34 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry and burns up as a result of frictional heating over the Pacific Ocean after some 40 minutes

1988 Mar 23

21:05

Progress 35 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 184 x 262 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination

1988 Mar 25

22:21

Progress 35 docks at the Mir complex Kvant docking port - orbit is 318 x 347 kilometres

1988 May 5

01:36

Progress 35 undocks from Mir

1988 May 5

06:01

Progress 35 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry and burns up as a result of frictional heating over the Pacific Ocean after some 40 minutes

1988 May 13

00:30

Progress 36 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 185 x 246 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination

1988 May 15

02:13

Progress 36 docks at the Mir complex Kvant docking port - orbit is 318 x 347 kilometres

1988 Jun 5

11:11

Progress 36 undocks

1988 Jun 5

20:28

Progress 36 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry and burns up as a result of frictional heating over the Pacific Ocean some 40 minutes later

1988 Jun 7

14:03

Soyuz TM-5 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 198 x 216 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination with cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov, Viktor Savinikh and Aleksadr Aleksandrov (of Bulgaria) aboard

1988 Jun 9

15:57

Soyuz TM-5 docks with the Mir complex Kvant port - orbit is 333 x 359 kilometres

1988 Jun 17

06:20

Soyuz TM-4 undocks from Mir with Solovyov, Savinikh and Aleksandrov aboard - it then performs a fly-around inspection of the Mir complex

1988 Jun 17

09:22

Soyuz TM-4 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry

1988 Jun 17

10:13

Soyuz TM-4 lands - 205 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan

1988 Jun 17

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Immediately after landing in Soyuz TM-4, cosmonaut Anatoli Levchenko is taken by helicopter to the airport at Baikonur - from there, while still recovering from the effects of being in orbit, he pilots a Tu-154 civil airliner to Moscow in a simulation of a space shuttle re-entry and landing

1988 Jun 18

10:11

Soyuz TM-5 undocks from Mir with Titov and Manarov aboard

1988 Jun 18

10:27

After Mir has completed a 180 degree rotation, Soyuz TM-5 docks with Mir forward port

1988 Jun 30

05:33

Titov and Manarov begin a space walk to replace a detector unit in one of Kvant x-ray telescopes

1988 Jun 30

10:43

Titov and Manarov complete space walk after 5 hrs 10 minutes, not having completed their task due to a broken tool which prevented them unfastening the detector

1988 Jul 18

21:13

Progress 37 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 187 x 256 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination

1988 Jul 20

22:33

Progress 37 docks at the Mir complex Kvant docking port - orbit is 318 x 347 kilometres

1988 Aug 12

08:31

Progress 37 undocks from Mir

1988 Aug 12

12:51

Progress 37 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry and burns up as a result of frictional heating over the Pacific Ocean after some 40 minutes

1988 Aug 25

05:00

Approximate time - Kvant orbital tug (launched 1987 Mar 31) re-enters the Earth atmosphere as a result of air drag - it is destroyed by frictional heating

1988 Aug 29

04:23

Soyuz TM-6 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 195 x 228 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination with cosmonauts Valery Lyakhov, Valery Poliakov (a medical doctor) and Abduk Mohmand (from Afghanistan) aboard

1988 Aug 31

05:41

Soyuz TM-6 docks with the Mir complex Kvant port - orbit is 333 x 359 kilometres

1988 Sep 5

23:55

Soyuz TM-5 undocks from Mir with Lyakhov and Mohmand aboard

1988 Sep 6

01:20

Approximate time - Soyuz TM-5 prepares to fire its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry but it fires late and the crew shuts it down down

1988 Sep 6

04:30

Approximate time - Soyuz TM-5 fires its manoeuvring engine again in an attempt to complete the re-entry manoeuvre - it fails to fire properly and long enough, leaving Soyuz TM-5 in orbit

1988 Sep 7

00:49

Soyuz TM-5 lands - 160 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan

1988 Sep 7

01:01

Soyuz TM-5 fires its manoeuvring engine again in an attempt to complete the re-entry manoeuvre - it is successful

1988 Sep 8

01:05

Soyuz TM-6 undocks with Titov, Manarov and Poliakov aboard

1988 Sep 9

01:25

After Mir has completed a 180 degree rotation, Soyuz TM-6 docks with the forward port

1988 Sep 9

23:34

Progress 38 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 186 x 246 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination

1988 Sep 12

01:21

Progress 38 docks at the Mir complex Kvant docking port - orbit is 337 x 363 kilometres

1988 Oct 20

06:59

Titov and Manarov begin a space walk to complete work on replacing a detector unit in one of Kvant x-ray telescopes which they began during a space walk 1988 June 30, and set up a bracket for use during a later space walk by a Soviet-French crew - they use the new Orlan-DMA space suits for the first time

1988 Oct 20

11:19

Titov and Manarov complete space walk after 4 hours 20 minutes

1988 Nov 23

12:12

Progress 38 undocks from Mir

1988 Nov 23

18:26

Progress 38 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry and burns up as a result of frictional heating over the Pacific Ocean after some 40 minutes

1988 Nov 26

15:49

Soyuz TM-7 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 194 x 235 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination with cosmonauts Aleksandr Volkov, Sergei Krikalyov and Jean-Loup Chretien (of France) aboard

1988 Nov 28

17:15

Soyuz TM-7 docks with the Mir complex Kvant port - orbit is 337 x 369 kilometres

1988 Dec 9

09:57

Volkov and Chretien begin a space walk to instal several items of technical equipment on the outside of Mir

1988 Dec 9

16:07

Volkov and Chretien complete space walk after 6 hours 10 minutes

1988 Dec 21

02:32

Soyuz TM-6 undocks from Mir with Titov, Manarov and Chretien aboard

1988 Dec 21

06:44

Soyuz TM-6 lands - 180 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan

1988 Dec 21

06:48

Originally-planned landing time for Soyuz TM-6 - a computer problem causes a three hour delay

1988 Dec 21

09:12

Soyuz TM-6 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry

1988 Dec 22

06:59

Soyuz TM-7 undocks from Mir with Volkov and Krikalyov aboard

1988 Dec 22

09:46

After Mir has completed a 180 degree rotation, Soyuz TM-7 docks with the forward port

1988 Dec 25

04:11

Progress 39 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 187 x 237 kilometre orbit at 51.6 degrees inclination

1988 Dec 27

05:35

Progress 39 docks at the Mir complex Kvant docking port - orbit is 325 x 353 kilometres