Manned Spaceflights - 1982

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Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
STS-3 March 22, 1982
(16:00 GMT)
March 30, 1982
(16:04 GMT)
Commander: Jack Lousma
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 5)
USA M Perigee: 240 km
Apogee: 240 km
Inclination: 38°
130 orbits
Pilot: Gordon Fullerton
(1st Orbital Flight) (NASA Group 7)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Columbia
(OV-102)
(3rd Mission)
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
Only landing to date at
Northrup Strip, White Sands,
New Mexico (Runway 17)
Backup Crew: Thomas Mattingly USA M Time
8 days
0 hours
4 minutes
Backup Crew: Henry Hartsfield USA M

Salyut 7
(17K #126)
April 19, 1982
(19:45 GMT)
February 7, 1991
(03:44 GMT)
Salyut 7
(Salyut DOS 6 space station)
USSR   Perigee: 219 km
Apogee: 278 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Launch Vehicle
Proton-K #306-02
Site-200P (Launch Pad 40)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Time
3,215 days
7 hours

Soyuz T-5
(7K-ST #11L)
May 13, 1982
(09:58 GMT)
August 27, 1982
(15:04 GMT)
Commander: Anatoli Berezovoy
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 5)
(Down - Soyuz T-7) (211 days 9 hours 4 minutes)
USSR M Perigee: 190 km
Apogee: 231 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Crew: 3,344 orbits
1 spacewalk
Flight Engineer: Valentin Lebedev
(2nd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 2)
(Down - Soyuz T-7) (211 days 9 hours 4 minutes)
USSR M
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
190 km E of Dzhezkazgan
(51° N, 67° E)
1st Backup Crew: Vladimir Titov USSR M Time
106 days
5 hours
6 minutes
1st Backup Crew: Gennadi Strekalov USSR M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-U
Docked with Salyut 7
May 14, 1982

(11:36 GMT)
Undocked from Salyut 7
August 27, 1982

(11:43 GMT)
2nd Backup Crew: Vladimir Lyakhov USSR M
2nd Backup Crew: Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov USSR M

Soyuz T-6
(7K-ST #9L)
June 24, 1982
(16:29 GMT)
July 2, 1982
(14:20 GMT)
Commander: Vladimir Dzhanibekov
(3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 5)
USSR M Perigee: 189 km
Apogee: 233 km
Inclination: 51.6°
125 orbits
Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
(2nd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 3)
USSR M
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
65 km NE of Arkalyk
(51° N, 67° E)
Researcher: Jean-Loup Chrétien
(1st Flight) (CNES Group 1 - Premier Vol Habité Mission)
France M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-U
Docked with Salyut 7
June 25, 1982

(17:46 GMT)
Undocked from Salyut 7
July 2, 1982

(11:03 GMT)
Backup Crew: Leonid Kizim USSR M Time
7 days
21 hours
50 minutes
Backup Crew: Vladimir Soloviyov USSR M
Backup Crew: Patrick Baudry France M

STS-4 June 27, 1982
(15:00 GMT)
July 4, 1982
(16:09 GMT)
Commander: Thomas Mattingly
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 5)
USA M Perigee: 296.7 km
Apogee: 304.8 km
Inclination: 28.5°
113 orbits
Space Shuttle
Columbia
(OV-102)
(4th Mission)
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
3rd landing at
Edwards Air Force Base,
California (Runway 22)
Pilot: Henry Hartsfield
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 7)
USA M Time
7 days
1 hour
9 minutes

Soyuz T-7
(7K-ST #12L)
August 19, 1982
(17:11 GMT)
December 10, 1982
(19:02 GMT)
Commander: Leonid Popov
(3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 5)
(Down - Soyuz T-5) (7 days 21 hours 52 minutes)
USSR M Perigee: 289 km
Apogee: 299 km
Inclination: 51.6°
Crew: 126 orbits
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
118 km east of Dzhezkazgan
(47° N, 75° E)
Flight Engineer: Aleksandr Serebrov
(1st Flight) (NPOE Detachment - Group 4)
(Down - Soyuz T-5) (7 days 21 hours 52 minutes)
USSR M
Docked with Salyut 7
August 20, 1982

(18:32 GMT)
Undocked from Salyut 7
December 10, 1982

(15:45 GMT)
Research Engineer: Svetlana Savitskaya
(1st Flight) (MAP Detachment)
(Down - Soyuz T-5) (7 days 21 hours 52 minutes)
USSR F
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-U
Port Relocation
August 29, 1982

(14:47 GMT - 15:07 GMT)
Backup Crew: Vladimir Vasyutin USSR M Time
113 days
1 hour
50 minutes
Backup Crew: Viktor Savinkyh USSR M
Backup Crew: Irina Pronina USSR F

STS-5 November 11, 1982
(12:19 GMT)
November 16, 1982
(14:33 GMT)
Commander: Vance Brand
(2nd Flight) (NASA Group 5)
USA M Perigee: 296 km
Apogee: 302 km
Inclination: 28.5°
82 orbits
Pilot: Robert Overmyer
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 7)
USA M
Space Shuttle
Columbia
(OV-102)
(5th Mission)
Launch Pad 39A
Kennedy Space Center,
Florida
4th landing at
Edwards Air Force Base,
California (Runway 22)
Mission Specialist 1: Joseph Allen
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 6)
USA M Time
5 days
2 hours
14 minutes
Mission Specialist 2: William Lenoir
(1st Flight) (NASA Group 6)
USA M

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