COSPAR ID 1978-003A Period 1.5 hours Dates 10 Jan 1978 – 16 Mar 1978 Landing date 16 March 1978 Crew size 2 | Orbits completed 1,025 Manufacturer NPO Energia Apogee 253,800 m Launch date 10 January 1978 Rocket Soyuz-U | |
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Mission duration 64 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes, 47 seconds Launch mass 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) | ||
Soyuz 27 (Russian: Союз 27, Union 27) was a 1978 Soviet manned spacecraft which flew to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station, during the mission EP-1. It was the third manned flight to the station, and the second successful docking. Once docked, it marked the first time that three spacecraft were docked together.
The main function of the EP-1 mission was to swap Soyuz craft with the orbiting crew, in so doing freeing a docking port for a forthcoming supply tanker. Cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Oleg Makarov returned to earth in the Soyuz 26 spacecraft after spending five days on the station. The descent module is displayed at the Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
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