Soyuz 28

USSR

Launch, orbit and landing data

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

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Job	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

Animations: Soyuz


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Double Crew

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

Flight

Launch from Baikonur; landing 135 km north of Arkalyk.

First Interkosmos-Mission with a Czech-Slowakian cosmonaut on board. Docking on Salyut 6 spacestation 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.