This agreement called for setting up a short, joint space project, during which one American astronaut would board the Russian space station Mir and two Russian cosmonauts would board a Space Shuttle.
Aftalen indebar en etablering af et kort, delt rumprogram, under hvilken en amerikansk astronaut skulle være om bord på den russiske rumstation Mir, og to russiske kosmonauter skulle opsendes med rumfærgen.