Soyuz T-7
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| Mission name | Soyuz T-7 | ||||
| Crew size | 3 (at launch) 2 (at landing) |
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| Call sign | Днепр (Dnieper) | ||||
| Launch pad | Gagarin's Start | ||||
| Launch date | August 19, 1982 17:11:52 UTC |
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| Landing | December 10, 1982 19:02:36 UTC 118 km E of Dzhezkazgan (70 km NE of Arkalyk?) |
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| Mission duration | 113d/01:50:44 | ||||
| Number of orbits | ~1,825 | ||||
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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.
[edit] Crew
| Position | Launching Crew | Landing Crew |
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| Commander | Leonid Popov Third spaceflight |
Anatoli Berezovoy First spaceflight |
| Flight Engineer | Aleksandr Serebrov First spaceflight |
Valentin Lebedev Second spaceflight |
| Research Cosmonaut | Svetlana Savitskaya First spaceflight |
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[edit] Backup crew
| Position | Crew | |
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| Commander | Vladimir Vasyutin | |
| Flight Engineer | Viktor Savinykh | |
| Research Cosmonaut | Irina Pronina | |
Mission parameters:
- Mass: 6,850 kg
- Perigee: 289 km
- Apogee: 299 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 90.3 minutes
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