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Soyuz T-7 (Russian: Союз Т-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 almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.

Soyuz T-7

COSPAR ID	1982-080A
SATCAT no.	13425
Mission duration	113 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, 44 seconds
Orbits completed	~1,825
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-T
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb)
Crew
Crew size	3 up 2 down
Launching	Leonid Popov Aleksandr Serebrov Svetlana Savitskaya
Landing	Anatoli Berezovoy Valentin Lebedev
Callsign	Днепр (Dnieper)
Start of mission
Launch date	August 19, 1982, 17:11:52 (1982-08-19UTC17:11:52Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	December 10, 1982, 19:02:36 (1982-12-10UTC19:02:37Z) UTC
Landing site	(70 kilometres (43 mi) NE of Arkalyk?)
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	289 kilometres (180 mi)
Apogee altitude	299 kilometres (186 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	90.3 minutes
Docking with Salyut 7
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz T-6 Soyuz T-8 →

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 Dnieper undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.[1]

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Leonid Popov Third and last spaceflight	Anatoli Berezovoy Only spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Aleksandr Serebrov First spaceflight	Valentin Lebedev Second and last spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Svetlana Savitskaya First spaceflight	None

Backup crew

Position	Crew
Commander	Vladimir Vasyutin
Flight Engineer	Viktor Savinykh
Research Cosmonaut	Irina Pronina

Mission highlights

Soyuz T-7 was an early flight to Salyut 7, the Soviet successor to Salyut 6. The crew which launched on Soyuz T-7 remained aboard the station for eight days, as a short-term "visiting crew", accompanying the station's long-term resident crew. The crew exchanged Soyuz vehicles with the resident crew, returning home in the older Soyuz T-5, leaving the fresher Soyuz T-7 available to the resident crew as a return vehicle.[2] This practice had been used several times on Salyut 6.

Savitskaya became the second woman in space,[3] and the first to visit a space station.

Mission parameters

• Mass: 6,850 kg
• Perigee: 289 km
• Apogee: 299 km
• Inclination: 51.6°
• Period: 90.3 minutes

Gallery

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  Dnieper crew
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  Elbrus crew

See also

• 1982 in spaceflight

References

На других языках

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- [en] Soyuz T-7

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[es] Soyuz T-7

Soyuz T-7 fue una misión espacial soviética tripulada realizada en una nave Soyuz T. Fue lanzada el 19 de agosto de 1982 desde el cosmódromo de Baikonur mediante un cohete Soyuz hacia la estación Salyut 7 con tres cosmonautas a bordo. Entre la tripulación se encontraba Svetlana Savítskaya, la segunda mujer en viajar al espacio tras Valentina Tereshkova.

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[ru] Союз Т-7

«Союз Т-7» — пилотируемый космический корабль.

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