Soyuz T-10

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Soyuz T-10
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The Soyuz T-10 return capsule on display at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi, India
Mission typeDock with Salyut 7
Operator Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
COSPAR ID 1984-014A OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
SATCAT no. 14701
Mission duration62 days 22 hours 41 minutes 22 seconds
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-ST No.15L
Spacecraft type Soyuz-T
Manufacturer Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
Launch mass6850 kg
Landing mass2800 kg
Crew
Crew size3
Launching Leonid Kizim
Vladimir Solovyov
Oleg Atkov
Landing Yuri Malyshev
Gennadi Strekalov
Rakesh Sharma
CallsignMayak (Beacon)
Start of mission
Launch date8 February 1984, 12:07:26 UTC
Rocket Soyuz-U s/n Yu15000-357
Launch site Baikonur, Site 31/6
Contractor Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
End of mission
Landing date11 April 1984, 10:48:48 UTC
Landing site160 km at the east of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric orbit
Regime Low Earth orbit
Perigee altitude 199.0 km
Apogee altitude 219.0 km
Inclination 51.6°
Period 88.7 minutes
Docking with Salyut 7
Docking date13 April 1984

Soyuz T-10 was the fifth expedition to the Salyut 7 space station. It entered a darkened and empty station because of the loss of Soyuz T-10a. It was visited by the sixth and seventh expeditions. During the course of the cosmonauts stay, three extravehicular activities took place to repair a fuel line. [1]

Contents

During their multiple spacewalks to perform maintenance on the station, the crew set a record for spacewalk hours. [2]

Crew

Position Launching CosmonautLanding Cosmonaut
Commander Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Leonid Kizim
Second spaceflight		 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Yuri Malyshev
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Vladimir Solovyov
First spaceflight		 Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Gennadi Strekalov
Third spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Oleg Atkov
Only spaceflight		 Flag of India.svg Rakesh Sharma
Only spaceflight
India

Backup crew

Position Cosmonaut
Commander Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Vladimir Vasyutin
Flight Engineer Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Viktor Savinykh
Research Cosmonaut Flag of the Soviet Union.svg Valeri Polyakov

Mission parameters

Mission highlights

Fifth expedition to Salyut 7. Visited by 6th and 7th expeditions. The three-person Mayak crew entered the darkened Salyut 7 station carrying flashlights. The cosmonauts commented on the burnt-metal odor of the drogue docking unit. [3] By 17 February 1984, Salyut 7 was fully reactivated, and the cosmonauts had settled into a routine. Physician Oleg Atkov did household chores and monitored his own health and that of his colleagues, who conducted experiments. During the previous year a fuel line on the station had ruptured. Kizim and Solovyov carried out three EVAs to try to fix the problem during the mission.

Spacecraft location

The Soyuz T-10 descent module is on display at the Nehru Planetarium in New Delhi, India, along with the spacesuit of Rakesh Sharma. [4]

References

  1. ↑ D.S.F. Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage" (PDF). NASA. pp. 50, 97–99. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2003.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  2. ↑ Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. pp. 170, 177. ISBN   0-7917-0188-3.
  3. ↑ "Soyuz T-10". Spacefacts.
  4. ↑ Sharma, Priya. "Sky walk, A trip to the Nehru Planetarium". The Indian School. Retrieved 13 May 2025.


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