Soyuz 36
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| Mission Statistics | |
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| Mission Name: | Soyuz 36 |
| Call Sign: | Orion |
| Number of Crew Members: | 2 |
| Launch: | May 26, 1980 18:20:39 UTC Baikonur LC31 |
| Landing: | July 31, 1980 15:15:02 UTC 140 km SE of Dzhezkazgan |
| Duration: | 65 days 20 hours 54 minutes 23 seconds |
| Number of Orbits: | 124 |
Crew
Launched:
- Valery Kubasov (3)
- Bertalan Farkas - Hungary(1)
Landed:
- Viktor Gorbatko (3)
- Pham Tuan (1)
(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission.
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 6800 kg
- Perigee: 197.5 km
- Apogee: 281.9 km
- Inclination: 51.62°
- Period: 89.0minutes
Mission Highlights
9th expedition to Salyut 6. Valeri Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas formed the Orion Visiting Expedition crew. Hungary’s experiments were in the areas of materials processing, Earth observation, and life sciences. Hungarian Intercosmos mission. Postponed from June 1979 after the Soyuz 33 main engine failure. Kubasov and Farkas traded their spacecraft for Soyuz 35. Soyuz 36 was later traded for Soyuz 37.
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