Soyuz 36
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| Mission name | Soyuz 36 | ||||
| Crew size | 2 | ||||
| Call sign | Orion | ||||
| Launch date | May 26, 1980 18:20:39 UTC Baikonur LC31 |
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| Landing | July 31, 1980 15:15:02 UTC 140 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
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| Mission duration | 65d/20:54:23 | ||||
| Number of orbits | 124 | ||||
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[edit] Crew
Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.
Launched:
- Valery Kubasov (3) - Commander
- Bertalan Farkas (Hungary) (1) - Research Cosmonaut
Landed:
- Viktor Gorbatko (3) - Commander
- Pham Tuân (Vietnam) (1) - Research Cosmonaut
[edit] Backup crew
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov - Commander
- Béla Magyari (Hungary) - Research Cosmonaut
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 6800 kg
- Perigee: 197.5 km
- Apogee: 281.9 km
- Inclination: 51.62°
- Period: 89.0 minutes
[edit] Mission highlights
9th expedition to Salyut 6. Valeri Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas formed the Orion Visiting Expedition crew. Hungary’s experiments were in the areas of materials processing, Earth observation, and life sciences. Hungarian Intercosmos mission. Postponed from June 1979 after the Soyuz 33 main engine failure. Kubasov and Farkas traded their spacecraft for Soyuz 35. Soyuz 36 was later traded for Soyuz 37.
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