Soyuz 40

Soyuz 40 mission is the designation for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6 It was the 17th visit of a manned Soyuz spacecraft in this space station and the 64th flight in the Soviet Sojusprogramm.

Crew

  • Leonid Ivanovich Popov ( second space flight), Commander
  • Dumitru Dorin Prunariu ( first space flight), flight engineer (Romania 1965 Romania)

Popov was only seven months ago returned from a six-month stay aboard the Salyut 6.

Backup crew

  • Yuri Viktorovich Romanenko, Commander
  • Dumitru Dediu, Flight Engineer (Romania 1965 Romania)

Mission overview

Soyuz 40 brought the ninth Intercosmos crew ( also the tenth visit team Salyut 6 EP-10 ) to the space station Salyut 6, you attended the 6 core team ( Salyut 6 EO -6) Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh, the Soyuz T-4 was started.

Soyuz 40 was the last spacecraft docked with the station Salyut 6 and also the end of the first phase of the manned Intercosmos program. The Romanian Prunariu observed especially the Earth's magnetic field. Scheduled Earth observations were postponed until the last possibility of flying over Romania on the last day. At this time, the team also tested the system of orientation of the station.

This flight also ended the use of the space ship type 7K- T, who was replaced by the now proven Soyuz T (7K -ST).

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