Soyuz T-7
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| Mission Statistics | |
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz T-7 |
| Call Sign: | Днепр ( Dnieper) |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 launched, 2 landed |
| Launch: | August 19, 1982 17:11:52 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | December 10, 1982 19:02:36 UTC 118 km E of Dzhezkazgan (70 km NE of Arkalyk?) |
| Duration: | 113 days 01 hours 50 minutes 44 seconds |
| Number of Orbits: | ~1,825 |
Crew
Launched:
- Leonid Popov (3)
- Aleksandr Serebrov (1)
- Svetlana Savitskaya (1)
Landed:
- Anatoli Berezovoy (1)
- Valentin Lebedev (2)
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 6850 kg
- Perigee: 289 km
- Apogee: 299 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period:90.3 minutes
Mission Highlights
The 2nd expedition to Salyut 7. Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space since Valentina Tereshkova (who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6).
The Soyuz-T 7 crew (code name Dnieper) included Svetlana Savitskaya, the first woman to visit space in 20 years. She 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 longduration crew.
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