Soyuz 36

Soyuz 36 mission is the designation for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6 It was the tenth manned visit to a Soyuz spacecraft in this space station and the 57th flight in the Soviet Sojusprogramm.

Crew

Start crew

  • Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov ( third space flight), Commander
  • Bertalan Farkas ( first space flight), flight engineer (Hungary Hungary)

Kubasov, making it the seventh cosmonaut who brought it on three spaceflights.

Backup crew

  • Vladimir Alexandrovich Dzhanibekov, Commander
  • Bela Magyari, Flight Engineer (Hungary Hungary)

Return crew

  • Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko ( third space flight), Commander
  • Phạm Tuan ( first space flight), flight engineer ( Vietnam )

Mission overview

The Besuchsmannschft Salyut 6 EP-5 (Russian экспедиция посещения -5, visit Team -5) of the space station Salyut 6 was also the fifth international team in the Intercosmos program, this time with Hungarian participation. The flight had been delayed after the problems with the main engine of Soyuz 33 from June 1979 until May 1980.

Kubasov and Farkas attended the fourth crew Salyut 6 EO -4 Leonid Popov and Valery Rjumin. They returned on June 3, 1980 Soyuz 35 returns to Earth while docked Soyuz remained as a rescue spacecraft to Salyut 6. The day after Popov and Rjumin translated to the spaceship from the rear to the front of the space station docking port. For the first time cosmonauts flew a spaceship with which they had not started, and that was not intended for their landing.

After two months Soyuz 36 could no longer be maintained as a rescue ship. The Space Veteran Victor Gorbatko and the Vietnamese Phạm Tuan delivered on Soyuz 37, a new spaceship to the station and brought Soyuz 36 returned to Earth.

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