COSPAR ID 1982-080A Period 1.5 hours Dates 19 Aug 1982 – 10 Dec 1982 Landing date 10 December 1982 | Orbits completed ~1,825 Manufacturer NPO Energia Apogee 299,000 m Launch date 19 August 1982 | |
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Mission duration 113 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, 44 seconds Launch mass 6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb) | ||
Soyuz T-7 (code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.
Savitskaya was given the orbital module of Soyuz T-7 for privacy. The Soyuz T-7 crew delivered experiments and mail from home to the Elbrus crew. On August 21 the five cosmonauts traded seat liners between the Soyuz Ts. The Dniepers undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.
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