Soyuz TM-20


The Soyuz-TM crew transports were fourth generation 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.
Soyuz TM-20 was the twentieth expedition to the Russian Space Station Mir.
as seen from Space Shuttle Discovery during STS-63, with Soyuz TM-20 seen at the top

Crew

Mission highlights

20th expedition to Mir.
Carried 10 kg of equipment for use by Merbold in ESA's month-long Euromir
94 experiment program. During automatic approach to Mir's front port, the
spacecraft yawed unexpectedly. Viktorenko completed a manual docking
without additional incident.