Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz 28

Human Spaceflights

International Flight No. 63 Soyuz 28 Zenit USSR
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Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	02.03.1978
Launch time:	15:28 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	192 - 246 km
Inclination:	51,63°
Docking Salyut 6:	03.03.1978, 17:09:30 UTC
Undocking Salyut 6:	10.03.1978, 10:23:30 UTC
Landing date:	10.03.1978
Landing time:	13:44 UTC
Landing site:	135 km N of Arkalyk

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Gubarev	Aleksei Aleksandrovich	Commander	2	7d 22h 17m	125
2	Remek	Vladimír "Volodya"	Research Cosmonaut	1	7d 22h 17m	125

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Gubarev
2	Remek

Landing
1	Gubarev
2	Remek

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Rukavishnikov	Nikolai Nikolayevich	Commander
2	Pelczak	Oldrich "Olda"	Research Cosmonaut

Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 135 km north of Arkalyk.

It was the first Interkosmos Mission with a Czech-Slowakian cosmonaut on board. Following a one day solo flight the Soyuz docked with the Salyut 6 space station on 03.03.1978 and common work with the first resident crew.

Interkosmos missions had mainly political purposes but also some scientific experiments were performed, as crystall growing experiments, materials processing, earth-observations, medical biological tests.