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Soyuz T 7

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COSPAR ID
  
1982-080A

Spacecraft type
  
Soyuz-T

Period
  
1.5 hours

Dates
  
19 Aug 1982 – 10 Dec 1982

Landing date
  
10 December 1982

Launch site
  
Baikonur Cosmodrome

Orbits completed
  
~1,825

Manufacturer
  
NPO Energia

Apogee
  
299,000 m

Launch date
  
19 August 1982

Rocket
  
Soyuz-U

Soyuz T-7 wwwspacefactsdemissionphotosoyuzt7jpg

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.

Mission parameters

  • Mass: 6,850 kg
  • Perigee: 289 km
  • Apogee: 299 km
  • Inclination: 51.6°
  • Period: 90.3 minutes
  • References

    Soyuz T-7 Wikipedia