22 March 1981, 14:58:55 (1981-03-22UTC14:58:55Z) UTC
Rocket
Soyuz-U
Launch site
Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date
30 March 1981, 11:40:58 (1981-03-30UTC11:40:59Z) UTC
Landing site
175 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric
Regime
Low Earth
Perigee altitude
197.5 kilometres (122.7 mi)
Apogee altitude
282.8 kilometres (175.7 mi)
Inclination
51.6 degrees
Period
89.1 minutes
Docking with Salyut 6
Soyuz programme (Crewed missions)
← Soyuz T-4
Soyuz 40 →
Soyuz 39 was a 1981 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the fifteenth expedition, and carried the eighth international crew to the orbiting facility.[1] The crew visited Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh, who had reached Salyut-6 ten days prior.
The flight carried Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa into space. With this mission, Gürragchaa became the first Mongolian, and second Asian cosmonaut.
The Mongolian contribution for this mission had begun in 1967, when the president of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences Bazaryn Shirendev attended a conference of scientists from socialist countries in Moscow, where the Intercosmos project was announced.[2] Dzhanibekov and Gürragchaa performed about thirty experiments during the course of the mission.[3]
^The mission report is available here: http://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-39.htm
^"Сансрын хамтарсан нислэг". Retrieved 21 March 2012.
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