The date: May 20, 1991 (17.28.39 Moscow time)
The Soyuz TM 12 spaceship in its final approach to the Soviet space station Mir.
The crew: Anatoli Artsebarsky, Sergey Krikalev and Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space and the first woman aboard Mir.
She returned on May 26 in TM 11 with cosmonauts Afanasyev and Manarov.