Soyuz 37

Soyuz 37 mission is the designation for the flight of a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6 It was the twelfth visit to a manned Soyuz spacecraft in this space station and the 59th flight in the Soviet Sojusprogramm.

Crew

Start crew

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

Gorbatko was so eighth Soviet cosmonaut who brought it on three spaceflights.

Backup crew

  • Valery Fedorovich Bykowski, Commander
  • Bui Thanh Liem, Flight Engineer ( Vietnam )

Return crew

  • Leonid Ivanovich Popov ( first space flight), Commander
  • Valeri Viktorovich Rjumin ( third space flight), flight engineer

Mission overview

It was the seventh visit team ( Salyut 6 EP -7), who visited the station Salyut 6. Also, this visit took place as part of the Intercosmos program. During the visit 6 EO - 4, the fourth core team Salyut worked with Leonid Popov and Valery Rjumin on board. For the sixth research program Intercosmos team (about 30 experiments, including Earth observations and recordings, materials research, medical examinations ) were also studies on the growth of a Algenfarnart from Vietnam, which comes for future closed life support systems in question.

Gorbatko and Tuan returned with the spacecraft Soyuz 36 returns to Earth, leaving the Soyuz 37 crew, who used it to Earth to return on 11 October 1980. Popov and Rjumin had thus setting a new record for a long-term space flight, Rjumin to also set a record for the longest total time in space.

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