Soyuz T-10
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-10-1. 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.
COSPAR ID | 1984-014A |
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SATCAT no. | 14701 |
Mission duration | 62 days, 22 hours, 41 minutes, 22 seconds |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Launch mass | 6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb) |
Crew | |
Crew size | 3 |
Launching | Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovyov Oleg Atkov |
Landing | Yury Malyshev Gennady Strekalov Rakesh Sharma |
Callsign | Mayak (Beacon) |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 February 1984, 12:07:26 UTC |
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 31/6 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | 11 April 1984, 10:48:48 UTC |
Landing site | 160 km E of Dzhezkazgan (145 km SE of Dzhezkazgan?) |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Perigee altitude | 199 kilometres (124 mi) |
Apogee altitude | 219 kilometres (136 mi) |
Inclination | 51.6 degrees |
Period | 88.7 minutes |
Docking with Salyut 7 | |
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions) |
Crew
Position | Launching crew | Landing crew |
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Commander | Leonid Kizim Second spaceflight |
Yury Malyshev Second and last spaceflight |
Flight Engineer | Vladimir Solovyov First spaceflight |
Gennady Strekalov Third spaceflight |
Research Cosmonaut | Oleg Atkov Only spaceflight |
Rakesh Sharma Only spaceflight |
Backup crew
Position | Crew | |
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Commander | Vladimir Vasyutin | |
Flight Engineer | Viktor Savinykh | |
Research Cosmonaut | Valeri Polyakov |
Mission parameters
- Mass: 6850 kg
- Perigee: 199 km
- Apogee: 219 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.7 minutes
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. By 17 February, 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.