Soyuz-37

Soyuz-37
Soyuz-37
General information
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Organization
Ship flight data
Ship name	Soyuz-37
Launch vehicle	Soyuz-U
Union Flight No.	40
Launch pad	Baikonur Square Number 1
Launch	July 23, 1980 18:33:00 UTC
Docking	Soyuz-6
Landing ship	October 11, 1980 09:50:00 UTC
Landing place	180 km southeast of Dzhezkazgan
Flight duration	79 days 15 hours 17 minutes
Number of turns	1256
Distance traveled	5.226 million km
Apogee	293.1 (358.2) km
Perigee	197.8 (345) km
Mood	51.64 °
Circulation period	89.12 (91.38) min
Weight	6.8 t
NSSDC ID	1980-064A
SCN	11905
Crew flight data
Crew members	2
Call sign	Terek
Landing	Soyuz-36 , July 31, 1980 3:15:00 p.m. UTC
Landing place	180 km southeast of Dzhezkazgan
Flight duration	7 days 20 hours 42 minutes
Number of turns	124
Docking	Salute-6 , July 24, 1980 8:02 p.m. UTC
Undocking	Salute-6 , August 1, 1980 16:43 UTC
Docking	Salyut-6 PHO BB, August 1, 1980 18:20 UTC
Undocking	Salute-6 PhO BB, October 11, 1980 06:32 UTC
Associated Expeditions

Soyuz-37 is a manned spacecraft.

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Flight Options

The mass of the device is 6.8 tons.
The inclination of the orbit is 51.64 °.
Period of circulation - 89.12 (91.38) min.
Perigee - 197.8 (345) km.
Apogee - 293.1 (358.2) km.

Launch crew

Commander - Gorbatko, Victor Vasilievich (3)
Astronaut-researcher - Pham Tuan (1) ( Vietnam )

Duplicate Crew

Commander - Bykovsky, Valery Fedorovich
Research Astronaut - Bui Thanh Liem ( Vietnam )

Landing crew

Commander - Popov, Leonid Ivanovich
Flight Engineer - Ryumin, Valery Viktorovich

Flight Description

Victor Gorbatko and Fam Tuan

Seventh expedition to visit the Salyut-6 orbital scientific station. The sixth international flight under the Intercosmos program . For the first time in space, an astronaut from Vietnam and Asia . At this time, the fourth main crew — Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin — worked at the Salyut-6 station.

Gorbatko and Fam Tuan returned to Earth on the Soyuz-36 ship .