Soyuz T-2, launched June 5, 1980, was the 10th successful mission to the space station Salyut 6. Its crew consisted of Commander Yury Malyshev and Vladimir Aksyonov. They were the second crew to visit the resident long-duration crew of Soyuz 35. Soyuz T-2 was mainly to test the new Soyuz T spacecraft with a crew. Soyuz T-1 was unmanned.
They returned to Earth June 9.
Yury Malyshev, born August 27, 1941 in the former Soviet Union, went into space twice. His first mission was aboard Soyuz T-2 as commander in June 1980 to Salyut 6.
His second mission was aboard Soyuz T-11 as commander in April 1984 to Salyut 7. He returned to Earth on Soyuz T-10 about a week later.
Soyuz T-10, launched February 8, 1984, was the fifth mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Its crew consisted of Commander Leonid Kizim, Flight Engineer Vladimir Solovyov and Research Cosmonaut Oleg Atkov.
The crew entered a dark, empty space station with flashlights, noticing a "burnt-metal odor" inside. They reactivated the space station and conducted three EVAs to repair a fuel line.
Soyuz T-10 returned to Earth April 11, with Commander Yury Malyshev, Flight Engineer Gennady Strekalov and Research Cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma, India's first astronaut and his inaugural flight. The original crew stayed aboard Salyut 7 and returned to Earth on Soyuz T-11, October 2, 1984.