Soyuz 30

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Soyuz 30
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The Soyuz 30 capsule, Hermaszewski's spacesuits and personal items, as well as memorabilia from the flight on display.
OperatorSoviet space program
COSPAR ID 1978-065A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 10968
Mission duration7 days, 22 hours and 2 minutes
Orbits completed125
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type Soyuz 7K-T/A9
Manufacturer NPO Energia
Launch mass6,800 kg (15,000 lb)
Crew
Crew size2
Members Pyotr Klimuk
Mirosław Hermaszewski
CallsignКавказ (Kavkaz - "Caucasus")
Start of mission
Launch date27 June 1978, 15:27:21 (1978-06-27UTC15:27:21Z) UTC
Rocket Soyuz-U
Launch site Baikonur 1/5 [1]
End of mission
Landing date5 July 1978, 13:30:20 (1978-07-05UTC13:30:21Z) UTC
Landing site300 km (190 mi) W of Tselinograd
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee altitude 197.6 km (122.8 mi)
Apogee altitude 261.3 km (162.4 mi)
Inclination 51.66 degrees
Period 88.83 minutes
Docking with Salyut 6 [2]
Docking portAft
Docking date28 June 1978, 17:07:50 UTC
Undocking date5 July 1978, 10:15:40 UTC
Time docked6 days, 17 hours and 7 minutes
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  Soyuz 29
Soyuz 31  

Soyuz 30 (Russian : Союз 30, Union 30) was a 1978 crewed Soviet space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the sixth mission to and fifth successful docking at the orbiting facility. [2] The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.

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Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski, the first (and to date, only) Polish cosmonaut, aloft.

Crew

Position Cosmonaut
Commander Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Pyotr Klimuk
EP-3
Third and last spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut Flag of Poland.svg Mirosław Hermaszewski, IK
EP-3
Only spaceflight

Backup crew

Position Cosmonaut
Commander Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Valery Kubasov
Flight Engineer Flag of Poland.svg Zenon Jankowski, IK

Mission parameters

Mission highlights

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Heatshield of the capsule

The second Intercosmos mission was launched 27 June 1978 to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station. The Soyuz docked with the space station on 29 June, and cosmonauts Klimuk and Hermaszewski were greeted by Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, the resident crew who had been on board for 12 days. For the third time, the Salyut was a four-man orbiting space laboratory. [3]

The activities of the Soyuz 30 crew, however, were severely curtailed so as not to interfere with the Soyuz 29 crew. On the Soyuz 29 crew's rest day, the international crew had to stay in their Soyuz to perform their experiments. [4] Nevertheless, Hermaszewski conducted many experiments. One was crystallization experiments which produced 47 grams of cadmium tellurium mercury semiconductors for use by infra-red detectors on board the station. The yield was far greater - 50% compared to 15% - than ground-based experiments. [4]

The Soyuz 30 crew was trained, as all international crews, in the use of the MKF-6M camera. Training in part took place on a Tu-134 flying at 10 km to best mimic conditions on the station. [4] Hermaszewski photographed Poland in co-ordination with aircraft taking close-up photos, but bad weather over Poland limited the photo sessions. [4] They additionally filmed the Aurora Borealis. [3]

Hermaszewski participated in medical experiments which measured lung capacity and the heart during exercise and in a pressure suit. One experiment, which all four on board the station participated in, was Smak (the Polish word for taste), a taste experiment which sought answers to why some food was less palatable in weightlessness. [4]

The Soyuz 30 crew packed their experiments into their capsule and returned to Earth 5 July, landing in a Rostov state farm field 300 km west of Tselinograd. [4]

See also

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