Soyuz T-7
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| Mission statistics | |
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| Mission name: | Soyuz T-7 |
| Call sign: | Днепр (Dnieper) |
| Number of crew members: | 3 launched, 2 landed |
| Launch: | August 19, 1982 17:11:52 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | December 10, 1982 19:02:36 UTC 118 km E of Dzhezkazgan (70 km NE of Arkalyk?) |
| Duration: | 113 days, 1 h, 50 min, 44 s |
| Number of Orbits: | ~1,825 |
Soyuz T-7 (code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.
Savitskaya was given the orbital module of Soyuz T-7 for privacy. The Soyuz T-7 crew delivered experiments and mail from home to the Elbrus crew. On August 21 the five cosmonauts traded seat liners between the Soyuz Ts. The Dniepers undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.
Crew members, with the number of spaceflights each had completed, including this mission:
Crew launched:
- Leonid Popov (3)
- Aleksandr Serebrov (1)
- Svetlana Savitskaya (1)
Crew landed:
- Anatoli Berezovoy (1)
- Valentin Lebedev (2)
Mission parameters:
- Mass: 6,850 kg
- Perigee: 289 km
- Apogee: 299 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 90.3 minutes
| Preceded by Soyuz T-6 |
Soyuz programme | Succeeded by Soyuz T-8 |
