Soyuz 36

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Mission emblem
Emblem of the Soyuz 36 mission
Mission dates
Mission: Soyuz 36
COSPAR-ID : 1980-041A
Spacecraft: Soyuz 7K-T ( GRAY index  11F615A8)
serial number 52
Dimensions: 6800 kg
Launcher: Soyuz U (GRAY index 11A511U)
Call sign: Outbound flight: Орион (" Orion ")
Return flight: Терек (" Terek ")
Crew: 2
Begin: May 26, 1980, 18:20:39  UTC
Starting place: Baikonur 31/6
Space station: Salyut 6
Coupling: May 27, 1980, 19:56 UTC
Decoupling: July 31, 1980, 11:55 UTC
Landing: July 31, 1980, 15:15:02 UTC
Landing place: 180 km southeast of Djeskasgan
Flight duration: 65d 20h 54m
Earth orbits: 1038
Rotation time : 89.0 (91.4) min
Apogee : 282 (363) km
Perigee : 197 (345) km
◄ Before / After ►
Soyuz 35
(manned) 		Soyuz T-2
(unmanned)
Next manned mission:
Soyuz 37

Soyuz 36 is the mission designation for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6, which started on May 26, 1980 . It was the tenth manned visit by a Soyuz spaceship to this space station and the 57th flight in the Soviet Soyuz program.

crew

Starting crew

Kubasov was the seventh cosmonaut to make three space flights.

Substitute team

Return crew

Mission overview

The visiting team Salyut 6 EP-5 ( Russian экспедиция посещения-5 , visiting team-5) of the Salyut 6 space station was also the fifth international team in the Interkosmos program, this time with Hungarian participation. The flight was postponed from June 1979 to May 1980 after problems with the main engine of Soyuz 33 .

Kubasov and Farkas visited the fourth regular crew Salyut 6 EO-4 Leonid Popov and Valeri Ryumin . They returned to Earth on June 3, 1980 with Soyuz 35 , while Soyuz 36 remained docked at Salyut 6 as a rescue spacecraft. The day after, Popov and Ryumin moved the spaceship from the rear to the front coupling socket of the space station. For the first time, cosmonauts flew a spaceship that they had not started in and that was not intended for their landing.

After two months, Soyuz 36 could no longer be held as a rescue ship. The space veteran Wiktor Gorbatko and the Vietnamese Phạm Tuân delivered Soyuz 37, a new spaceship to the station and brought Soyuz 36 back to Earth.

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