Saturday, May 25, 2002

Soyuz 26

 1977-113A


Yuriy Romanenko and Georgiy Grechko stepped in to replace the Soyuz-25 crew as Salyut-6's first residents. Their spacecraft, 7K-T No. 43 (11F615A8 No. 43) was launched on 1977 Dec 10 and became Soyuz-26. It docked with the rear port of DOS 5 on 1977 Dec 11.

On 1978 Jan 16, the EP-1 crew launched on Soyuz-27, Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Oleg Makarov, entered the spacecraft. They undocked later that day and landed in Kazakhstan.


Soyuz-26 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1977 Dec 10  0118:40  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB 
 0120 Blok BVGD sep 
 0123  Blok A sep 
 0127  Blok I MECO 
 0127  Blok I sep 
   88.7 195 x 235 x 51.6 
   205 x 245 x 51.6 
   90.2 251 x 321 x 51.6 
 0900  262 x 337 x 51.6 
1977 Dec 11  0302  Docked with Salyut-6 
  EO crew to Salyut-6 
1978 Jan 15   Test burn 
1978 Jan 16   EP crew from Salyut-6 
 0805?  Undocked 
 1039?  Retrofire 
 1042?  DO CO 
 1055?  Modules sep 
 1100?  Entry 
 1124:58  Landed

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