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This article is about the successful mission. For the failed mission originally designated Soyuz T-10, see Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L.

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-10a. 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.[1]

During their multiple spacewalks to perform maintenance on the station, the crew set a record for spacewalk hours.[2]

Crew

Position Launching Cosmonaut Landing Cosmonaut
Commander Soviet Union Leonid Kizim
Second spaceflight 		Soviet Union Yuri Malyshev
Second and last spaceflight
Flight Engineer Soviet Union Vladimir Solovyov
First spaceflight 		Soviet Union Gennadi Strekalov
Third spaceflight
Research Cosmonaut Soviet Union Oleg Atkov
Only spaceflight 		India Rakesh Sharma
Only spaceflight
India

Backup crew

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

Mission parameters

  • Mass: 6850 kg
  • Perigee: 199.0 km
  • Apogee: 219.0 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.[3] By 17 February 1984, 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.

References

  1. ^ D.S.F. Portree (1995). "Mir Hardware Heritage" (PDF). NASA. pp. 50, 97–99. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2003. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. pp. 170, 177. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.
  3. ^ "Soyuz T-10". Spacefacts.

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