Soyuz 37

Soyuz 37

Crew: Viktor Gorbatko with Phạm Tuân
Mission duration	79 days, 15 hours, 16 minutes, 54 seconds
Orbits completed	124
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz 7K-T
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb)
Crew
Crew size	2
Launching	Viktor Gorbatko Pham Tuân
Landing	Leonid Popov Valery Ryumin
Callsign	Терек (Terek - Terek River
Start of mission
Launch date	July 23, 1980, 18:33:03 (1980-07-23T18:33:03Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
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Landing site	180 kilometres (110 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	197.8 kilometres (122.9 mi)
Apogee	293.1 kilometres (182.1 mi)
Inclination	51.61 degrees
Period	89.12 minutes
Docking with Salyut 6
Soyuz programme (Manned missions) ← Soyuz T-2 Soyuz 38 →

Soyuz 37 (Russian: Союз 37, Union 37) was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 13th mission to and 11th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 37 crew were the third to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.^[1]

Soyuz 37 carried Soviet Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuân, the first Asian and first Vietnamese cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 36, the resident crew later used their craft to return to earth.

Crew

Backup crew

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

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.

References

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