Soyuz T-7

Soyuz T-7

Mission duration	113 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes, 44 seconds
Orbits completed	~1,825
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-T
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb)
Crew
Crew size	3 up 2 down
Launching	Leonid Popov Aleksandr Serebrov Svetlana Savitskaya
Landing	Anatoli Berezovoy Valentin Lebedev
Callsign	Днепр (Dnieper)
Start of mission
Launch date	August 19, 1982, 17:11:52 (1982-08-19UTC17:11:52Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	December 10, 1982, 19:02:36 (1982-12-10UTC19:02:37Z) UTC
Landing site	(70 kilometres (43 mi) NE of Arkalyk?)
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	289 kilometres (180 mi)
Apogee	299 kilometres (186 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	90.3 minutes
Docking with Salyut 7
---- Soyuz programme (Manned missions) ← Soyuz T-6 Soyuz T-8 →

Soyuz T-7 (code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.

Savitskaya was given the orbital module of Soyuz T-7 for privacy. The Soyuz T-7 crew delivered experiments and mail from home to the Elbrus crew. On August 21 the five cosmonauts traded seat liners between the Soyuz Ts. The Dniepers undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Leonid Popov Third spaceflight	Anatoli Berezovoy First spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Aleksandr Serebrov First spaceflight	Valentin Lebedev Second spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Svetlana Savitskaya First spaceflight	None

Backup crew

Position	Crew
Commander	Vladimir Vasyutin
Flight Engineer	Viktor Savinykh
Research Cosmonaut	Irina Pronina

Mission parameters

• Mass: 6,850 kg
• Perigee: 289 km
• Apogee: 299 km
• Inclination: 51.6°
• Period: 90.3 minutes

Gallery

• USSR Stamp 1983 SouzT7 Salyut7 SouzT5 Cosmonauts.jpg

  Dnieper crew

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  Elbrus crew

See also

• 1982 in spaceflight