Cash shortages have delayed the production of a Soyuz booster to launch the Russian Soyuz TM23 to the Mir 1 space station in December. The launch, will be delayed until February 1996, resulting in, a stay in space by the TM22 crew aboard the station. The 135-day mission by the TM22 crew, which includes European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter, will last 44 days longer, landing on 29 February. Reiter made a 5h space walk on 20 October.

 

Source: Flight International