Soyuz T-7
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| Mission name | Soyuz T-7 | ||||
| Crew size | 3 (at launch) 2 (at landing) |
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| Call sign | Днепр (Dnieper) | ||||
| Launch pad | Gagarin's Start | ||||
| Launch date | August 19, 1982 17:11:52 UTC |
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| Landing | December 10, 1982 19:02:36 UTC 118 km E of Dzhezkazgan (70 km NE of Arkalyk?) |
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| Mission duration | 113d/01:50:44 | ||||
| Number of orbits | ~1,825 | ||||
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Soyuz T-7 (code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.
Savitskaya was given the orbital module of Soyuz T-7 for privacy. The Soyuz T-7 crew delivered experiments and mail from home to the Elbrus crew. On August 21 the five cosmonauts traded seat liners between the Soyuz Ts. The Dniepers undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.
[edit] Crew
Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.
Launched:
- Leonid Popov (3) - Commander
- Aleksandr Serebrov (1) - Flight Engineer
- Svetlana Savitskaya (1) - Research Cosmonaut
Landed:
- Anatoli Berezovoy (1) - Commander
- Valentin Lebedev (2) - Flight Engineer
[edit] Backup crew
- Vladimir Vasyutin - Commander
- Viktor Savinykh - Flight Engineer
- Irina Pronina - Research Cosmonaut
Mission parameters:
- Mass: 6,850 kg
- Perigee: 289 km
- Apogee: 299 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 90.3 minutes
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