Mir 92

Mir 92 was the first bilateral German-Russian human-spaceflight mission after German reunification and the end of the Soviet Union. Klaus-Dietrich Flade launched from Baikonur on Soyuz TM-14 on March 17, 1992 with Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr Kaleri, docked with Mir on March 19, and worked aboard the station as a research cosmonaut. The mission carried a compact German science program focused on biomedical, biology, physics, and materials-science investigations that helped prepare later European station work. Flade returned to Earth on Soyuz TM-13 on March 25, 1992 with Sergei Krikalyov and Aleksandr Volkov, completing an eight-day mission that DLR describes as the starting point for later German-Russian cooperation on Mir and the ISS.