Soyuz TM-6 (Soyuz Programme) Black Coffee Mug

The Soyuz TM-6 was a spacecraft mission that marked the sixth flight of the Soyuz program, a Russian human spaceflight program still actively used today. This particular mission launched on April 18, 1982, and carried cosmonauts Valeri Polyakov and Aleksandr Pavlov to the Salyut 7 orbital space station. The primary objective of Soyuz TM-6 was to deliver the two cosmonauts for a long duration stay on board the station as part of the Intercosmos program, which allowed cosmonauts from other socialist countries to conduct experiments and perform research in space. This mission paved the way for further international collaboration in human spaceflight, demonstrating the capabilities of the Soyuz program in supporting long-duration missions.