Soyuz T-10

Soyuz T-10

Mission duration	62 days, 22 hours, 41 minutes, 22 seconds
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-T
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb)
Crew
Crew size	3
Launching	Leonid Kizim Vladimir Solovyov Oleg Atkov
Landing	Yury Malyshev Gennady Strekalov Rakesh Sharma
Callsign	Mayak (Beacon)
Start of mission
Launch date	8 February 1984, 12:07:26 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur 31/6
End of mission
Landing date	11 April 1984, 10:48:48 UTC
Landing site	160 km E of Dzhezkazgan (145 km SE of Dzhezkazgan?)
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	199 kilometres (124 mi)
Apogee	219 kilometres (136 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	88.7 minutes
Docking with Salyut 7
Soyuz programme (Manned missions) ← Unnumbered Soyuz T-11 →

Soyuz T-10 was the fifth expedition to the Salyut 7 space station. It entered a darkened and empty station because of the loss of Soyuz T-10-1. It was visited by the sixth and seventh expeditions. During the course of the cosmonauts stay, three extravehicular activities took place to repair a fuel line.

Crew

Position	Launching crew	Landing crew
Commander	Leonid Kizim Second spaceflight	Yury Malyshev Second spaceflight
Flight Engineer	Vladimir Solovyov First spaceflight	Gennady Strekalov Third spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut	Oleg Atkov First spaceflight	Rakesh Sharma First spaceflight  India

Backup crew

Position	Crew
Commander	Vladimir Vasyutin
Flight Engineer	Viktor Savinykh
Research Cosmonaut	Valeri Polyakov

Mission parameters

• Mass: 6850 kg
• Perigee: 199 km
• Apogee: 219 km
• Inclination: 51.6°
• Period: 88.7 minutes

Mission highlights

Fifth expedition to Salyut 7. Visited by 6th and 7th expeditions. The three-person Mayak crew entered the darkened Salyut 7 station carrying flashlights. The cosmonauts commented on the burnt-metal odor of the drogue docking unit. By 17 February, Salyut 7 was fully reactivated, and the cosmonauts had settled into a routine. Physician Oleg Atkov did household chores and monitored his own health and that of his colleagues, who conducted experiments. During the previous year a fuel line on the station had ruptured. Kizim and Solovyov carried out three EVAs to try to fix the problem during the mission.

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