Soyuz 28
1978 Soviet crewed spaceflight mission / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soyuz 28 (Russian: Союз 28, Union 28) was a March 1978 Soviet crewed mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station.[2] It was the fourth mission to the station, the third successful docking, and the second visit to the resident crew launched in Soyuz 26.
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COSPAR ID | 1978-023A |
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SATCAT no. | 10694 |
Mission duration | 7 days, 22 hours, 16 minutes |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Aleksei Gubarev Vladimír Remek |
Callsign | Зенит (Zenit – "Zenith") |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 2 March 1978, 15:28 (1978-03-02UTC15:28Z) UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5[1] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 10 March 1978, 13:44 (1978-03-10UTC13:45Z) UTC |
Landing site | 51°N 67°E |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 198.9 kilometres (123.6 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 275.6 kilometres (171.2 mi) |
Inclination | 51.65 degrees |
Period | 88.95 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
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Cosmonaut Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia became the first person launched into space who was not a citizen of the United States or the Soviet Union. The other crew member was Aleksei Gubarev. The flight was the first mission in the Intercosmos program that gave Eastern Bloc and other communist states access to space through crewed and uncrewed launches.