Soyuz 36

Soyuz 36
COSPAR ID1980-041A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.11811
Mission duration65 days, 20 hours, 54 minutes, 23 seconds
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz 7K-T
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Launch mass6,800 kilograms (15,000 lb)
Crew
Crew size2
LaunchingValeri Kubasov
Bertalan Farkas
LandingViktor Gorbatko
Pham Tuân
CallsignОрион (Orion - "Orion")
Start of mission
Launch date26 May 1980, 18:20:39 (1980-05-26UTC18:20:39Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U
Launch siteBaikonur 31/6
End of mission
Landing date31 July 1980, 15:15:02 (1980-07-31UTC15:15:03Z) UTC
Landing site140 kilometres (87 mi) SE of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude197.5 kilometres (122.7 mi)
Apogee altitude281.9 kilometres (175.2 mi)
Inclination51.62 degrees
Period89.0 minutes
Docking with Salyut 6
Docking portAft port[1]
Docking dateMay 27, 1980, 19:56 UTC[2]
Undocking dateJuly 04, 1980, 16:39 UTC[1]
Time docked37d 20h 43m
Redocking with Salyut 6
Redocking portFront port
Redocking dateJuly 04, 1980, 17:09 UTC[1]
Unredocking dateJuly 31, 1980, 11:55 UTC[2]
Time redocked26d 18h 46m
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz 36 (Russian: Союз 36, Union 36) was a 1980 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 11th mission to and ninth successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew.[2]

Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas, the first Hungarian cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew and returned to Earth in Soyuz 35; a later crew used their craft to return to Earth.