26 August 1978, 14:51:30 (1978-08-26UTC14:51:30Z) UTC
Rocket
Soyuz-U
Launch site
Baikonur 1/5[1]
End of mission
Landing date
2 November 1978, 11:04:17 (1978-11-02UTC11:04:18Z) UTC
Landing site
140 kilometres (87 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Low Earth
Perigee altitude
196.8 kilometres (122.3 mi)
Apogee altitude
259.9 kilometres (161.5 mi)
Inclination
51.64 degrees
Period
88.81 minutes
Docking with Salyut 6
Docking port
Aft port
Docking date
28 August 1978, 16:37:37 UTC[2]
Undocking date
07 September 1978, 16:37:37 UTC[3]
Time docked
10d
Redocking with Salyut 6
Redocking port
Front port
Redocking date
07 September 1978, 16:37:37 UTC[3]
Unredocking date
02 November 1978, 11:04:17 UTC[2]
Time redocked
55d 18h 26m
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions)
← Soyuz 30
Soyuz 32 →
Valery Bykovsky with Sigmund Jähn
Soyuz 31 (Russian: Союз 31, Union 31) was a 1978 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station.[2] It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 31 crew were the second to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew.
Soyuz 31 carried Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn, the first German cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew and returned to Earth in Soyuz 29, the resident crew returned to Earth in Soyuz 31.
^"Baikonur LC1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
^ abcThe mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-31.htm
Soyuz31 (Russian: Союз 31, Union 31) was a 1978 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the seventh mission to and sixth successful...
who flew on three space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz31. He was also backup for Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37. Born in Pavlovsky Posad, Russia, on 2...
of 139 days. The crew returned in Soyuz31, which had been swapped by a crew launched in August who returned in Soyuz 29. The second long-duration mission...
supported by ten short-term visiting crews who typically arrived in newer Soyuz craft and departed in older craft, leaving the newer craft available to...
aborted Soyuz mission T-10a. Two aborted missions did cross either the Kármán line or the U.S. definition of space. These were the non-fatal aborted Soyuz mission...
Scientific Research Institute, Ministry of Defence (Russia). Soyuz 25 Soyuz 29/Soyuz31Soyuz T-4 Salyut 6 Hero of the Soviet Union, twice (2 November 1978...
This is a list of crewed and uncrewed flights of Soyuz series spacecraft. The Soyuz programme is an ongoing human spaceflight programme which was initiated...
docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 30 crew were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 29 resident crew. Soyuz 30 carried Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław...
Soyuz 32 (Russian: Союз 32, Union 32) was a 1979 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the eighth mission to and seventh successful...
as Flight Engineer on Soyuz 29 and Soyuz T-6, he spent 147 days, 12 hours and 37 minutes in space. Ivanchenkov first flew on Soyuz 29 in 1978 to the Salyut...
(21 October 2020). "Soyuz MS-16 returns Space Station trio to Earth". NASASpaceflight.com. Retrieved 22 October 2020. Garcia, Mark (31 May 2020). "Station...
and Soyuz 11, Soyuz 3 had an official insignia that wasn't worn during the flight, and then in the Apollo–Soyuz program. After that and until Soyuz TM-12...
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