Soyuz 35
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| Mission statistics | |
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| Mission name: | Soyuz 35 |
| Call sign: | Dnieper |
| Number of crew members: | 2 |
| Launch: | April 9, 1980 13:38:22 UTC Baikonur LC31 |
| Landing: | June 3, 1980 15:06:23 UTC 180 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 55 days, 1 h, 28 min, 1 s |
| Number of Orbits: | 2917 |
[edit] Crew
Launched:
- Leonid Popov (1)
- Valery Ryumin (3)
Landed:
- Valery Kubasov (3)
- Bertalan Farkas - Hungary (1)
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 6800 kg
- Perigee: 198 km
- Apogee: 259.7 km
- Inclination: 51.65°
- Period: 88.81 minutes
[edit] Mission highlights
8th expedition to Salyut 6. Returned to Earth carrying the crew launched on Soyuz 36.
Valentin Lebedev was scheduled to be Leonid Popov’s flight engineer, but he required an operation after injuring his knee while working out on a trampoline. Ryumin, of the last crew to visit Salyut 6, was called in to fill his place. Upon entering Salyut 6, Ryumin noted that the two viewports in the transfer compartment had lost their transparency. The windows also had many chips in them caused by micrometeoroids and orbital debris. The cosmonauts replaced components of the attitude control system and life support system, installed a new caution and warning system, synchronized the station’s clocks with those in the TsUP, added an 80 kg storage battery, and replaced air from tanks in Progress 8.
While aboard Salyut 6 station, on July 19, Popov and Ryumin sent their greetings to the Olympians and wished them happy starts in the live communication between the station and the Central Lenin Stadium, where the opening ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympics was held. They appeared on the stadium's scoreboard and their voices were translated via loud speakers.
| Preceded by Soyuz 34 |
Soyuz programme | Succeeded by Soyuz 36 |
