Soyuz T-3

Soyuz T -3 is the mission name for a flight of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft to the Soviet space station Salyut 6 The fifth long-term occupation of the station, the mission carried the designation Salyut 6 EO - fifth It was the 14th visit of a manned Soyuz spacecraft in this space station and the 61st flight in the Soviet Sojusprogramm.

Crew

Main occupation

  • Leonid Denisovich Kizim ( first space flight), Commander
  • Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov ( third space flight), flight engineer
  • Gennadi Mikhailovich Strekalow ( first space flight), Research Cosmonaut

Also Makarov, reaching the Soviet record of three flights into orbit. In addition, he had experienced with Soyuz 18-1 a take-off.

Backup crew

  • Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, commander
  • Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, Flight Engineer
  • Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Research Cosmonaut

The support team consisted of Yuri Isaulow, Nikolai Rukavishnikov and Mikhail Potapov.

Mission overview

At the center of the flight was to test the three-seat version of the Soyuz - T spacecraft. For the first time since the flight of Soyuz 11 in 1971, three cosmonauts were started again in a spaceship, and the first time was the crew of Salyut 6 from three people.

Incidentally, was the renovation of the Salyut -6 station content of the short flight. In addition, all experiments ( Splaw, crystal, Swetoblok and Oasis ) were put into operation, brought biological objects observed so on. On December 2, the experiment microclimate was carried out to improve the living conditions and starting work on the temperature control. It was installed a new device for the water cycle with four pumps. On December 4, the electronics of the telemetry system was replaced and eliminates errors in the Electrical December 5. Other repairs concerned the replacement of a program and timing device in the control board ( The board control of the Salyut 6 as well as all prior Soyuz Soyuz T used, no digital on-board computer ) and the replacement of a power supply for the compressor in Treibstoffnachfüllsystem. The core team of EO -4, Popov and Rjumin, supported from the LEP ( control center ) the team with instructions for repairs.

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