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| Soyuz 32 (7K-T #48) |
February 25, 1979 (11:53 GMT) |
June 13, 1979 (16:18 GMT) |
Commander: Vladimir Lyakhov (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 4) (Down - Soyuz 34) (175 days 0 hours 35 minutes) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 198.4 km Apogee: 274.3 km Inclination: 51.61° Crew: 2,755 orbits 1 spacewalk |
| Flight Engineer: Valeri Ryumin (2nd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 3) (Down - Soyuz 34) (175 days 0 hours 35 minutes) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Site-31 (Launch Pad 6) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan (unmanned) |
1st Backup Crew: Leonid Popov | USSR | M | Time 108 days 4 hours 24 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Valentin Lebedev | USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Docked with Salyut 6 February 26, 1979 (13:29 GMT) |
Undocked from Salyut 6 June 13, 1979 (09:51 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Vyacheslav Zudov | USSR | M | |
| 2nd Backup Crew: Boris Andreyev | USSR | M | ||||
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| Soyuz 33 (7K-T #49) |
April 10, 1979 (17:34 GMT) |
April 12, 1979 (16:35 GMT) |
Commander: Nikolai Rukavishnikov (3rd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 198.6 km Apogee: 279.2 km Inclination: 51.63° 31 orbits |
| Researcher: Georgi Ivanov (1st Flight) (IKO Program - Group 2) |
Bulgaria | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Site-31 (Launch Pad 6) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
320 km SE of Dzhezkazgan (46° N, 69° E) |
Backup Crew: Yuri Romanenko | USSR | M | Time 1 day 23 hours 1 minute |
| Backup Crew: Aleksandr Panayatov Aleksandrov | Bulgaria | M | ||||
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| Soyuz 34 (7K-T #50) |
June 6, 1979 (18:12 GMT) |
August 19, 1979 (12:29 GMT) |
Soyuz 34 (Launched unmanned to provide a return vehicle for the Soyuz 32 crew) |
USSR | Perigee: 199 km Apogee: 271.5 km Inclination: 51.62° |
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| Site-31 (Launch Pad 6) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
170 km SE of Dzhezkazgan | |||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Docked with Salyut 6 June 8, 1979 (20:03 GMT) |
Undocked from Salyut 6 August 19, 1979 (09:07 GMT) |
Port Relocation June 14, 1979 (16:18 GMT - 16:52 GMT) |
Time 73 days 18 hours 16 minutes |
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