Soyuz 26
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This article is about the Soyuz 26 spacecraft. For the crew launched in Soyuz 26, see Salyut 6 EO-1.
Soyuz 26 (Russian: Союз 26, Union 26) was a Soviet space mission which launched the crew of Salyut 6 EO-1, the first long duration crew on the space station Salyut 6.[2]
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COSPAR ID | 1977-113A ![]() |
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SATCAT no. | 10506 |
Mission duration | 37 days, 10 hours, 6 minutes, 18 seconds |
Orbits completed | 1,522 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Launching | Yuri Romanenko Georgi Grechko |
Landing | Vladimir Dzhanibekov Oleg Makarov |
Callsign | Таймыр (Taymyr - "Taymyr Peninsula" |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 10 December 1977, 01:18:40 (1977-12-10UTC01:18:40Z) UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5[1] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 16 January 1978, 11:24:58 (1978-01-16UTC11:24:59Z) UTC |
Landing site | 265 kilometres (165 mi) W of Tselinograd |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 193 kilometres (120 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 246 kilometres (153 mi) |
Inclination | 51.65 degrees |
Period | 88.67 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
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The Soyuz spacecraft was launched on 10 December 1977, and docked with the space station the next day. Soyuz 27 arrived at the station in January 1978, and its two-person crew transferred into the Soyuz 26 spacecraft to undock and land a few days later.