Soyuz 37 crew (L-R): Viktor Gorbatko, Pham Tuan
Soyuz 37 mission patch
Soyuz 37, launched July 23, 1980, was the 13th (11th successful) mission to dock with the Soviet space station Salyut 6. Its crew consisted of Commander Viktor Gorbatko and Flight Engineer Pham Tuan, the first Vietnamese cosmonaut.
They stayed on Salyut 6 approximately eight days later and returned to Earth in the Soyuz 36 spacecraft.
The long-duration crew of Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin returned in Soyuz 37 in October.
No comments:
Post a Comment