The World - News from Aug. 29, 1988
An Afghan cosmonaut and two Soviet crew mates blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to join two Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Mir orbiting space station. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft was televised live from Soviet Central Asia. Veteran Soviet space traveler Col. Vladimir Lyakov, Afghan pilot Abdul Ahad Mohammed and Soviet physician Valery Palyakov are scheduled to rendezvous with Mir to join the crew of Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, in space since last December. Lyakov and Mohammed will return to Earth after eight days, but Palyakov will remain to observe the health of the two Mir cosmonauts in their final months in space.
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