Aeronautics and Space Report of the President FY 1995 Activities


Appendix C

U.S. and Russian Human Spaceflights, 1961-Sep. 30, 1995

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Spacecraft Launch Date Crew Flight Time
(days:hrs:min)
Highlights
Soyuz 13 Dec. 18, 1973 Petr I. Klimuk
Valentin V. Lebedev
7:20:55 Astrophysical, biological, and Earth resources experiments.
Soyuz 14 July 3, 1974 Pavel R. Popovich
Yury P. Artyukhin
15:17:30 Docked with Salyut 3 and Soyuz 14 crew occupied space station.
Soyuz 15 Aug. 26, 1974 Gennady V. Sarafanov
Lev. S. Demin
2:0:12 Rendezvoused but did not dock with Salyut 3.
Soyuz 16 Dec. 2, 1974 Anatoly V. Filipchenko
Nikolay N. Rukavishnikov
5:22:24 Test of Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) configuration.
Soyuz 17 Jan. 10, 1975 Aleksay A. Gubarev
Georgiy M. Grechko
29:13:20 Docked with Salyut 4 and occupied station.
Anomaly Apr. 5, 1975 Vasiliy G. Lazarev
Oleg G. Makarov
0:0:20 Soyuz stages failed to separate; crew recovered after abort.
Soyuz 18 May 24, 1975 Petr I. Klimuk
Vitaliy I. Sevastyanov
62:23:20 Docked with Salyut 4 and occupied station.
Soyuz 19 July 15, 1975 Aleksey A. Leonov
Valery N. Kubasov
5:22:31 Target for Apollo in docking and joint experiments of ASTP mission.
Apollo July 15, 1975 Thomas P. Stafford
Donald K. Slayton
Vance D. Brand
9:1:28 Docked with Soyuz 19 in joint (ASTP) experiments of ASTP mission.
Soyuz 21 July 6, 1976 Boris V. Volynov
Vitaliy M. Zholobov
48:1:32 Docked with Salyut 5 and occupied station.
Soyuz 22 Sep. 15, 1976 Valery F. Bykovskiy
Vladimir V. Aksenov
7:21:54 Earth resources study with multispectral camera system.
Soyuz 23 Oct. 14, 1976 Vyacheslav D. Zudov
Valery I. Rozhdestvenskiy
2:0:6 Failed to dock with Salyut 5.
Soyuz 24 Feb. 7, 1977 Viktor V. Gorbatko
Yury N. Glazkov
17:17:23 Docked with Salyut 5 and occupied station.
Soyuz 25 Oct. 9, 1977 Vladimir V. Kovalenok
Valery V. Ryumin
2:0:46 Failed to achieve hard dock with Salyut 6 station.
Soyuz 26 Dec. 10, 1977 Yury V. Romanenko
Georgiy M. Grechko
37:10:6 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 27; crew duration 96 days, 10 hrs.
Soyuz 27 Jan. 10, 1978 Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov
Oleg G. Makarov
64:22:53 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 26; crew duration 5 days, 22 hrs., 59 min.
Soyuz 28 Mar. 2, 1978 Aleksey A. Gubarev
Vladimir Remek
7:22:17 Docked with Salyut 6. Remek was first Czech cosmonaut to orbit.
Soyuz 29 June 15, 1978 Vladimir V. Kovalenok
Aleksandr S. Ivanchenkov
9:15:23 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 31; crew duration 139 days, 14 hrs., 48 min.
Soyuz 30 June 27, 1978 Petr I. Klimuk
Miroslaw Hermaszewski
7:22:4 Docked with Salyut 6. Hermaszewski was first Polish cosmonaut to orbit.
Soyuz 31 Aug. 26, 1978 Valery F. Bykovskiy
Sigmund Jaehn
67:20:14 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 29; crew duration 7 days, 20 hrs., 49 min. Jaehn was first German Democratic Republic cosmonaut to orbit.
Soyuz 32 Feb. 25, 1979 Vladimir A. Lyakhov
Valery V. Ryumin
Nikolay N. Rukavishnikov
108:4:24 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 34; crew duration 175 days, 36 min.
Soyuz 33 Apr. 10, 1979 Georgi I. Ivanov 1:23:1 Failed to achieve docking with Salyut 6 station. Ivanov was first Bulgarian cosmonaut to orbit.
Soyuz 34 June 6, 1979 (unmanned at launch) 7:18:17 Docked with Salyut 6, later served as ferry for Soyuz 32 crew while Soyuz 32 returned without a crew.
Soyuz 35 Apr. 9, 1980 Leonid I. Popov
Valery V. Ryumin
55:1:29 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 37. Crew duration 184 days, 20 hrs., 12 min.


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Spacecraft Launch Date Crew Flight Time
(days:hrs:min)
Highlights
Soyuz 36 May 26, 1980 Valery N. Kubasov
Bertalan Farkas
65:20:54 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 35. Crew duration 7 days, 20 hrs., 46 min. Farkas was first Hungarian to orbit.
Soyuz T-2 June 5, 1980 Yury V. Malyshev
Vladimir V. Aksenov
3:22:21 Docked with Salyut 6. First crewed flight of new- generation ferry.
Soyuz 37 July 23, 1980 Viktor V. Gorbatko
Pham Tuan
79:15:17 Docked with Salyut 6. Crew returned in Soyuz 36. Crew duration 7 days, 20 hrs., 42 min. Pham was first Vietnamese to orbit.
Soyuz 38 Sep. 18, 1980 Yury V. Romanenko
Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez
7:20:43 Docked with Salyut 6. Tamayo was first Cuban to orbit.
Soyuz T-3 Nov. 27, 1980 Leonid D. Kizim
Oleg G. Makarov
Gennady M. Strekalov
12:19:8 Docked with Salyut 6. First three-person flight in Soviet program since 1971.
Soyuz T-4 Mar. 12, 1981 Vladimir V. Kovalenok
Viktor P. Savinykh
74:18:38 Docked with Salyut 6.
Soyuz 39 Mar. 22, 1981 Vladimir A. Dzhanibekov
Jugderdemidiyn Gurragcha
7:20:43 Docked with Salyut 6. Gurragcha first Mongolian cosmonaut to orbit.
Space Shuttle
Columbia (STS-1)
Apr .12, 1981 John W. Young
Robert L. Crippen
2:6:21 First flight of Space Shuttle; tested spacecraft in orbit. First landing of airplane-like craft from orbit for reuse.
Soyuz 40 May 14, 1981 Leonid I. Popov
Dumitru Prunariu
7:20:41 Docked with Salyut 6. Prunariu first Romanian cosmonaut to orbit.
Space Shuttle
Columbia (STS-2)
Nov. 12, 1981 Joe H. Engle
Richard H. Truly
2:6:13 Second flight of Space Shuttle; first scientific payload (OSTA 1). Tested remote manipulator arm. Returned for reuse.
Space Shuttle
Columbia (STS-3)
Mar. 22, 1982 Jack R. Lousma
C. Gordon Fullerton
8:4:49 Third flight of Space Shuttle; second scientific payload (OSS 1). Second test of remote manipulator arm. Flight extended 1 day because of flooding at primary landing site; alternate landing site used. Returned for reuse.
Soyuz T-5 May 13, 1982 Anatoly Berezovoy
Valentin Lebedev
211:9:5 Docked with Salyut 7. Crew duration of 211 days. Crew returned in Soyuz T-7.
Soyuz T-6 June 24, 1982 Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
Jean-Loup Chrétien
7:21:51 Docked with Salyut 7. Chrétien first French cosmonaut to orbit.
Space Shuttle
Columbia (STS-4)
June 27, 1982 Thomas K. Mattingly II
Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr.
7:1:9 Fourth flight of Space Shuttle; first DoD payload; additional scientific payloads. Returned July 4. Completed testing program. Returned for reuse.
Soyuz T-7 Aug. 19, 1982 Leonid Popov
Aleksandr Serebrov
Svetlana Savitskaya
7:21:52 Docked with Salyut 7. Savitskaya second Soviet woman to orbit. Crew returned in Soyuz T-5.
Space Shuttle
Columbia (STS-5)
Nov. 11, 1982 Vance D. Brand
Robert F. Overmyer
Joseph P. Allen
William B. Lenoir
5:2:14 Fifth flight of Space Shuttle; first operational flight; launched two commercial satellites (SBS 3 and Anik C-3); first flight with four crew members. EVA test canceled when spacesuits malfunctioned.
Space Shuttle
Challenger (STS-6)
Apr. 4, 1983 Paul J. Weitz
Karol J. Bobko
Donald H. Peterson
Story Musgrave
5:0:24 Sixth flight of Space Shuttle; launched TDRS 1.
Soyuz T-8 Apr. 20, 1983 Vladimir Titov
Gennady Strekalov
Aleksandr Serebrov
2:0:18 Failed to achieve docking with Salyut 7 station.


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