Soyuz T-12
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| Mission statistics | |
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| Mission name: | Soyuz T-12 |
| Call sign: | Pamir (Pamir Mountains) |
| Number of crew members: | 3 |
| Launch: | July 17, 1984 17:40:54 UTC Baikonur LC31 |
| Landing: | July 29, 1984 12:55:30 UTC 140 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 11 days, 19 h, 14 min, 36 s |
| Number of Orbits: | 186 |
[edit] Crew
- Vladimir Dzhanibekov (4)
- Svetlana Savitskaya (2)
- Igor Volk (1)
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 7020 kg
- Perigee: 192 km
- Apogee: 218 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 minutes
[edit] Mission highlights
Soyuz T-12 was the 7th expedition to Salyut 7.
Volk was a glimpse of things which might have been: he was a Shuttle Buran program pilot being flown in space to prove he would be able to pilot Buran back to Earth after an extended stay in space.
The Pamirs, the second Visiting Expedition to visit the Mayaks, included veteran cosmonaut Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Buran shuttle program cosmonaut Igor Volk, and Svetlana Savitskaya. On July 25 Dzhanibekov and Savitskaya performed a 3 hr, 30 min EVA (Savitskaya became the first woman ever to perform EVA), during which they tested the URI multipurpose tool. They cut, welded, soldered, and coated metal samples. During the Pamirs’ stay, the six cosmonauts aboard Salyut 7 also conducted Rezonans tests and collected station air samples.
| Preceded by Soyuz T-11 |
Soyuz programme | Succeeded by Soyuz T-13 |
