They spent seven days, 20 hours and 42 minutes in the space and successfully landed on earth after making 124 full circles around the planet.

This was the first-ever space flight in the history of Mongolian people. Gurragchaa Jugderdemid is the first Mongolian to fly to the space and the second Asian cosmonaut.

He had been trained in Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center in the former Soviet Union, as a pilot of Soyuz spaceship along with his countryman M.Ganzorig.