COSPAR ID | 1979-018A |
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SATCAT no. | 11281 |
Mission duration | 108 days |
Orbits completed | 2,755 |
Spacecraft properties | |
Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-T |
Manufacturer | NPO Energia |
Crew | |
Crew size | 2 up None down |
Launching | Vladimir Lyakhov Valery Ryumin |
Callsign | Протон (Proton - "Proton" |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | February 25, 1979, 11:53:49 | UTC
Rocket | Soyuz-U |
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 |
End of mission | |
Landing date | June 13, 1979, 16:18:26 | UTC
Landing site | 170 kilometres (110 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan |
Orbital parameters | |
Reference system | Geocentric |
Regime | Low Earth |
Docking with Salyut 6 | |
Soyuz 32 (Russian: Союз 32, Union 32) was a 1979 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station.[1] It was the eighth mission to and seventh successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 32 crew was the third long-duration crew to man the space station.
Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin spent 175 days in space, setting a new space endurance record. Because of the failure of a visiting crew (Soyuz 33) to successfully dock and the resultant decision to send an uncrewed Soyuz craft (Soyuz 34) as a replacement return vehicle, the Soyuz 32 crew had no visitors in the Salyut 6 space station.