Soyuz 37
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| Mission name | Soyuz 37 | ||||
| Crew size | 2 | ||||
| Call sign | Терек (Terek - Terek River | ||||
| Launch date | July 23, 1980 18:33:03 UTC Gagarin's Start |
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| Landing | October 11, 1980 09:49:57 UTC 180 km (110 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
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| Mission duration | 79d/15:16:54 | ||||
| Number of orbits | 124 | ||||
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Soyuz 37 (Russian: Союз 37, Union 37) was the 11th expedition to Salyut 6, consisting of the 6th international crew of the Intercosmos program.
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[edit] Crew
Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.
Launched:
- Viktor Gorbatko (3) - Commander
- Pham Tuân (1) - Research Cosmonaut
Landed:
- Leonid Popov (1) - Commander
- Valery Ryumin (3) - Flight Engineer
[edit] Backup crew
- Valery Bykovsky - Commander
- Bui Thanh Liem - Research Cosmonaut
[edit] Mission parameters
- Mass: 6,800 kg (15,000 lb)
- Perigee: 197.8 km (122.9 mi)
- Apogee: 293.1 km (182.1 mi)
- Inclination: 51.61°
- Period: 89.12 minutes
[edit] Mission highlights
Pham Tuan of Vietnam arrived with Commander Viktor Gorbatko aboard Salyut 6 in Soyuz 37; they both returned to Earth in the Soyuz 36 spacecraft approximately eight days later. Tuan’s 30 experiments involved observing Vietnam from space, life sciences (including tests of growth of Vietnamese azolla water ferns, with application to future closed-loop life support systems), and materials processing. The long-duration crew launched in Soyuz 35 returned to earth in the Soyuz 37 spacecraft at the end of their 186 day mission.
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