Soyuz T-7

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

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

Soyuz T-7 was the third mission to the Salyut 7 space station and the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz T-5 resident crew of the station. The mission began on August 19, 1982, 17:11:52 UTC, launching Commander Leonid Popov, Flight Engineer Aleksandr Serebrov and Research Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, who was the second woman in space, 20 years after Valentina Tereshkova's flight. They docked with the station the next day. During their 7-day stay on the station, crew performed various scientific and medical experiments. Soyuz T-7, per usual, swapped their vehicles with the resident Soyuz T-5 crew, which allowed for a longer stay on the station. The crew returned in Soyuz T-5 spacecraft, landing safely back on Earth on August 27, 1982, 15:04:16 UTC.

Soyuz U

Family:
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 T-7


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 3 Crew Capacity: 3
Destination: Salyut 7
Serial Number: Soyuz T 11F732 #12

Soyuz T-7 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 19 August 1982 17:11 UTC. It transported three cosmonauts of EP-2 to Salyut 7. The crew was Leonid Popov, Aleksandr Serebrov, and Svetlana Savitskaya.

Soyuz T Details

Crew


Leonid Popov

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Retired

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

Svetlana Savitskaya

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

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: Aug. 8, 1948
Age: 76

Aleksandr Serebrov

Flight Engineer - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: Feb. 15, 1944
Date of Death: Nov. 12, 2013

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

(RFSA)

Administrator: Yuri Borisov Founded: 1992 Successes: 319 Failures: 11 Pending: 11

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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Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

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