Soyuz 32

Launch & orbit data: Designation  11281 / 79018A Launch date - time  25 Feb 1979 - 11:53:49 UT Launch site  Baikonur, LC31 Launch vehicle  Soyuz 11A511U OKB name - S/Nº  Soyuz 7K-T s/n 48 Basic shape  Sphere-cylinder + 2 wings Dimension (m)  7.5 long, 2.3 dia Mass (kg)  6570? kg Launch Crew (EO-3)  Lyakhov, Vladimir A. (CDR) Ryumin, Valeri V. (FE) Call Sign  Proton Backup crew  Popov, Lebedev Earth orbit on Feb 25.7:    - Perigee / Apogee  193 x 256 km    - Eccentricity  0.005    - Inclination  51.59°    - Period  88.93 min

Docking & landing data: Docking date - time  26 Feb 1979 - 13:29:55 UT Target spacecraft/port  Salyut 6/ fore Undocking date - time  13 Jun 1979 - 09:51 UT Deorbit burn date - time  13 Jun 1979 - 15:30:05 UT Desintegrated date - time  13 Jun 1979 - 16:18:26 UT Landing location   Flight Duration (d:hr:min)  108:04:24:37 (108.18 days) Landing crew  returned unmanned, after failed docking of Soyuz 33 Nbr orbits

Crew

Mission details:

• Launch from Baikonur; landing with Soyuz 34-capsule (19 Aug 1979) 295 km NW of Dzheskasgan; docking on Salyut 6; third resident crew; during their residence unmanned cargo spacecrafts Progress 5 -7 and unmanned spacecraft Soyuz-34 docked on the station; testing new developed Gamma-Ray-Telescope; experiments in materials science; Progress-spacecraft brought 10 m-reflector to the spacestation, which unfolded independent at the stations tall; test of the "Cosmic Radio-Telescope" (KRT-10); both cosmonauts conducted an EVA at 15.08.1979 (1h 23m) to jettison the KRT-10 antenna from rear docking port; new spaceflight-record.
• Soyuz 32 docked with Salyut 6 (1st airlock) on 1979 Feb 26.56.
• Transported a team consisting of V A Lyakhov and V V Ryumin to the Salyut-6 space station to conduct scientific investigations and experiments and repair work.
• Soyuz 32 returned to Earth unmanned; the Soyuz 32 cosmonauts remaining aboard Salyut until recovery by Soyuz 34.

Soyuz 7K-T

Salyut 6 KRT-deployment - Credit: RKK Energia.

Astrophilately covers:

Launch cancel Baikonur cosmodrom, signed by crew.

Undocking cancel Baikonur and return unmanned to Earth. (Disintegrated)