Soyuz 30
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Soyuz 30 (Russian: Союз 30, Union 30) was a 1978 crewed Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility.[2] The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Quick Facts COSPAR ID, SATCAT no. ...
COSPAR ID | 1978-065A |
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SATCAT no. | 10968 |
Mission duration | 7 days, 22 hours, 2 minutes, 59 seconds |
Orbits completed | 125 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T/A9 |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Members | Pyotr Klimuk Mirosław Hermaszewski |
Callsign | Кавказ (Kavkaz - "Caucasus") |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 27 June 1978, 15:27:21 (1978-06-27UTC15:27:21Z) UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5[1] |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 5 July 1978, 13:30:20 (1978-07-05UTC13:30:21Z) UTC |
Landing site | 300 kilometres (190 mi) W of Tselinograd |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 197.6 kilometres (122.8 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 261.3 kilometres (162.4 mi) |
Inclination | 51.66 degrees |
Period | 88.83 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
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Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first (and to date, only) Polish cosmonaut, aloft.