Soyuz 35
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Soyuz 35 (Russian: Союз 35, Union 35) was a 1980 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 10th mission to and eighth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 35 crew were the fourth long-duration crew to man the space station.[1]
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COSPAR ID | 1980-027A |
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SATCAT no. | 11753 |
Mission duration | 55 days, 1 hour, 28 minutes, 1 second |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 |
Launching | Leonid Popov Valery Ryumin |
Landing | Valery Kubasov Bertalan Farkas |
Callsign | Днепр (Dnepr – Dnieper) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | April 9, 1980, 13:38:22 (1980-04-09UTC13:38:22Z) UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 31/6 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | June 3, 1980, 15:06:23 (1980-06-03UTC15:06:24Z) UTC |
Landing site | 180 kilometres (110 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 198 kilometres (123 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 259.7 kilometres (161.4 mi) |
Inclination | 51.65 degrees |
Period | 88.81 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
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Cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin spent 185 days in space, setting a new space endurance record. Ryumin had completed a previous mission only eight months before. They hosted four visiting crews, including the first Hungarian, Cuban and Vietnamese cosmonauts.
As long-duration crews now routinely swapped spacecraft with incoming crew, the Soyuz 35 craft was used to return the visiting Soyuz 36 crew to Earth, while the resident crew returned in Soyuz 37.