Soyuz 27

Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Low Earth Orbit 1/5 Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Soyuz 27 carried Salyut 6 EP-1 mission to the Salyut 6 space station. The mission began on January 10, 1978, 12:26:00 UTC, launching Commander Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Flight Engineer Oleg Makarov into orbit. They docked with the station the next day. During their 5-day stay on the station, crew performed various scientific and technological experiments. EP-1 crew swapped vehicles with the Soyuz 26 (EO-1 expedition) crew, which allowed for a longer stay in orbit for EO-1. EP-1 crew returned in the Soyuz 26 spacecraft, landing safely back on Earth on January 16, 1978, 11:24:58 UTC.

Soyuz U

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Specifications

Minimum Stage
2
Max Stage
3
Length
51.1 m
Diameter
2.95 m
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
313.0 T
Thrust
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Soyuz U
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Full Name
Soyuz U

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
6900.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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Soyuz 27

In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 2 Crew Capacity: 3

Destination: Salyut 6

Serial Number: Soyuz 7K-T 11F615A8 #44

Soyuz 27 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 10 January 1978 12:26 UTC. It transported two cosmonauts of EP-1 to Salyut 6. The crew was Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Oleg Makarov. It also transported down the two cosmonauts from EO-1.

Soyuz Details

Crew

Vladimir Dzhanibekov

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Retired

Date of Birth: May 13, 1942
Age: 83

Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov

Flight Engineer - configurations.Country.None - ( RFSA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: Jan. 6, 1933
Date of Death: May 28, 2003

Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)

(RFSA)

Administrator: Yuri Borisov Founded: 1992 Successes: 327 Failures: 11 Pending: 2

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The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.

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