Soyuz 40

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Low Earth Orbit 1/5 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Soyuz 40 was the 16th and final mission to visit the Salyut 6 space station. It carried the the EP-10 crew, which visited the long-duration Soyuz T-4 resident crew. The mission began on May 14, 1981, 17:16:38 UTC, launching Commander Leonid Popov and Research Cosmonaut Dumitru Prunariu, the first Romanian cosmonaut, into orbit. They docked with the station the next day. During their 7-day stay on the station, EP-10 crew conducted Earth observation, material, medical and other experiments, including Earth magnetic field and space radiation study. The mission concluded with a safe landing back on Earth on May 22, 1981, 13:58:30 UTC.

Soyuz U

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Configuration:

Specifications
  • Minimum Stage
    2
  • Max Stage
    3
  • Length
    51.1 m
  • Diameter
    2.95 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    313.0 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Soyuz U
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Soyuz U
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    6900.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Soyuz 40


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 2 Crew Capacity: 3
Destination: Salyut 6
Serial Number: Soyuz 7K-T 11F615A8 #56

Soyuz 40 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 14 May 1981 17:16 UTC. It transported two cosmonauts of EP-10 to Salyut 6. The crew was Leonid Popov and Dumitru Prunariu.

Soyuz Details

Crew


Leonid Popov

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: Aug. 31, 1945
Age: 79

Dumitru Prunariu

Research Cosmonaut - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: Sept. 27, 1952
Age: 72

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

(RFSA)

Administrator: Yuri Borisov Founded: 1992 Successes: 315 Failures: 11 Pending: 10

Agency Type:

The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.

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