Soyuz T-14

USSR

Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	17.09.1985
Launch time:	12:38 UT
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	328 - 381 km
Inclination:	51,6°
Landing date:	21.11.1985
Landing time:	10:31 UT
Landing site:	180 km SE of Dzheskasgan

alternate crew photo

Crew

No.	Surname	Given name	Job	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Vasyutin	Vladimir Vladimirovich	Commander	1	64d 21h 52m	1027
2	Grechko	Georgi Mikhailovich	Flight Engineer	3	8d 21h 52m	140
3	Volkov	Aleksandr Aleksandrovich	Research Cosmonaut	1	64d 21h 13m	1027

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Vasyutin
2	Grechko
3	Volkov

Landing
1	Savinykh
2	Vasyutin
3	Volkov

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Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given name	Job
1	Viktorenko	Aleksandr Stepanovich	Commander
2	Strekalov	Gennadi Mikhailovich	Flight Engineer
3	Saley	Yevgeni Vladimirovich	Research Cosmonaut

Flight

Launch from Baikonur; landing 180 km southeast of Dzheskasgan.

Docking on Salyut 7; partly exchange of current resident crew (Dzhanibekov); photography of Earth surface; observation of mechanical and electronical behaviour of enlarged spacestation (Kosmos 1686); premature return to Earth because of seriously illness of Vasyutin. He was suffering from a very bad urinary tract infection and had a high fever as well. It took nearly six weeks of antibiotics once back on the ground before he was better.

Note

Grechko landed on 26.09.1985 at 09:51 UT with Soyuz T-13-spacecraft.

Drawings

©			Last update on April 20, 2008.