Soyuz 29

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Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz 29
COSPAR-ID : 1978-061A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-T ( GRAY index  11F615A8)
serial number 46
Dimensions: 6800 kg
Launcher: Soyuz (GRAY index 11A511)
Call sign: Outbound flight: Фотон (" Photon ")
Return flight: Ястреб (Jastreb - " Habicht ")
Crew: 2
Begin: June 15, 1978, 8:16:45 PM  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 1/5
Space station: Salyut 6
Coupling: June 16, 1978, 21:58:14 UTC
Decoupling: September 3, 1978, 08:20 UTC
Landing: September 3, 1978, 11:40:34 UTC
Landing place: 140 km east of Djeskazgan
Flight duration: 79d 15h 24min
Earth orbits: 1,257
Rotation time : 88.86 min
Apogee : 266 km
Perigee : 198 km
◄ Before / After ►
Kosmos 1001
(unmanned) 		Soyuz 30
(manned)
Previous manned mission:
Soyuz 28
Landing capsule from Soyuz-29 in the Military History Museum in Dresden
Sigmund Jähn and Waleri Bykowski signing the landing capsule: GDR postage stamp from 1988 on the 10th anniversary of space flight

Soyuz 29 is the mission name for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6, which started on June 15, 1978 . It was the fourth visit by a Soyuz spaceship to this space station and the 48th flight in the Soviet Soyuz program, since after Soyuz 28 an unmanned Soyuz-T spaceship called Kosmos 1001 was launched. Soyuz 29 brought the second resident crew Salyut 6 EO-2 to the space station and was brought back to Earth by the fourth visiting crew Salyut 6 EP-4.

crew

Starting crew

Kowaljonok and Ivanchenkov were already the substitute team for Soyuz 26 and Soyuz 27 together .

Replacement crew

The support team consisted of Leonid Popov and Valentin Lebedev .

Return crew (started with Soyuz 31)

Mission overview

Kowaljonok and Ivanchenkov formed the second regular crew (Salyut 6 EO-2) of the Salyut-6 station. Upon arrival, the station was in orbit with a perigee of 338 km and an apogee of 368 km. When entering the space station, the temperature in the station was 20 ° C, the air pressure was 750 mbar. During their stay, they received visits from several Interkosmos crews.

After almost three months in space, Bykowski and Jähn exchanged the spaceship for Soyuz 31 . An unexpected hard landing of the return capsule from Soyuz 29 led to permanent spinal damage in Jähn . Since the parachute did not come off the landing capsule, it was dragged through the steppe.

The return capsule was exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich as a loan from the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr . After a restoration, the capsule has been exhibited in the Libeskind Wedge of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden since 2011 .

See also

literature

  • Sigmund Jähn: Space Experience; Military publisher of the German Democratic Republic Berlin 1983
  • Eugen Reichl: space stations; Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 978-3-613-03229-3

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