Soyuz 29

Soyuz 29 is the mission name for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6 It was the fourth visit to a Sojusraumschiffs in this space station and the 48th flight in the Soviet Sojusprogramm because after Soyuz 28 an unmanned Soyuz - T spacecraft under the name cosmos was started in 1001. Soyuz 29 returned the second crew Salyut 6 EO-2 to the space station and was taken back by the fourth visit team Salyut 6 EP-4 to the earth.

Crew

Start crew

  • Vladimir Vasilyevich Kovalyonok ( second space flight), Commander
  • Alexander Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov ( first space flight), flight engineer

Kovalyonok and Ivanchenkov had previously been together for the backup crew for Soyuz 26 and Soyuz 27

Replacement crew

  • Vladimir Afanassjevitch Liakhov, Commander
  • Valeri Viktorovich Rjumin, Flight Engineer

The support crew consisted of Leonid Popov and Valentin Lebedev

Return crew (launched on Soyuz 31)

  • Valery Fedorovich Bykowski ( third space flight), Commander
  • Sigmund Jähn ( first space flight), Research Cosmonaut ( Democratic Republic of Germany DDR 1949 ), the first German in space

Mission overview

Kovalyonok and Ivanchenkov were the second crew ( Salyut 6 EO-2 ) of the Salyut -6 station. During their stay, they were visited by several Intercosmos crews.

After nearly three months in orbit the spacecraft of Bykowski and Jähn was replaced by Soyuz 31. An unexpectedly hard landing for the return capsule of Soyuz 29 resulted in Jähn cause permanent damage to the spine. Since the parachute did not dissolve from the landing capsule, it was dragged through the steppe.

The return capsule was on display in the Deutsches Museum in Munich on loan to the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr. After restoration, the capsule is on display at Libeskind wedge of the Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr in Dresden since 2011.

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