Soyuz T-5

Soyuz T-5[1]
COSPAR ID1982-042A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.13173
Mission duration106 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes, 11 seconds
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft typeSoyuz-T
ManufacturerNPO Energia
Launch mass6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb)
Crew
Crew size2 up
3 down
LaunchingAnatoli Berezovoy
Valentin Lebedev
LandingLeonid Popov
Aleksandr Serebrov
Svetlana Savitskaya
CallsignЭльбру́с (Elbrus)
Start of mission
Launch dateMay 13, 1982, 09:58:05 (1982-05-13UTC09:58:05Z) UTC
RocketSoyuz-U
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing dateAugust 27, 1982, 15:04:16 (1982-08-27UTC15:04:17Z) UTC
Landing site225 kilometres (140 mi) E of Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric
RegimeLow Earth
Perigee altitude190 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee altitude231 kilometres (144 mi)
Inclination51.6 degrees
Period89.7 minutes
Docking with Salyut 7
USSR Stamp 1983 Soyuz T-5 Salyut7 Soyuz T-7 Cosmonauts
Elbrus crew
Soyuz programme
(Crewed missions)

Soyuz T-5 was a human spaceflight into Earth orbit[2] to the then new Salyut 7 space station in 1982.[1] While the Soyuz-T was docked it received visits from the uncrewed Progress 13 resupply spacecraft, and the crewed Soyuz T-6 and Soyuz T-7.[1]

The first crew hand launched an amateur radio satellite, the T-6 mission included a visiting Frenchman, and T-7 included the first woman in space in 20 years.[1] It was the first mission to Salyut 7, but more than one spacecraft could be docked to S7 at a time, which is why the later missions could overlap with Soyuz T-5.[1] The spacecraft launched with two people ("Elbrus crew"), and returned with three ("Dnieper crew").[1]