Soyuz T-7

Infobox Space mission
mission_name = Soyuz T-7
sign = Днепр (Dnieper)
launch_pad = Gagarin's Start
crew_members = 3 (at launch)
2 (at landing)
launch = August 19, 1982
17:11:52 UTC
landing = December 10, 1982
19:02:36 UTC
118 km E of Dzhezkazgan
(70 km NE of Arkalyk?)
duration = 113d/01:50:44
orbits = ~1,825
next = Soyuz T-8
previous = Soyuz T-6 |

Soyuz T-7 (code name Dnieper) was the third Soviet space mission to the Salyut 7 space station. Crew member Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman in space in almost twenty years, since Valentina Tereshkova who flew in 1963 on Vostok 6.

Savitskaya was given the orbital module of Soyuz T-7 for privacy. The Soyuz T-7 crew delivered experiments and mail from home to the Elbrus crew. On August 21 the five cosmonauts traded seat liners between the Soyuz Ts. The Dniepers undocked in Soyuz T-5, leaving the newer Soyuz T-7 spacecraft for the long-duration crew.

Crew

Number in parentheses indicates number of spaceflights by each individual prior to and including this mission.

Launched:
*Leonid Popov (3) - Commander
*Aleksandr Serebrov (1) - Flight Engineer
*Svetlana Savitskaya (1) - Research Cosmonaut

Landed:
*Anatoli Berezovoy (1) - Commander
*Valentin Lebedev (2) - Flight Engineer

Backup crew

*Vladimir Vasyutin - Commander
*Viktor Savinykh - Flight Engineer
*Irina Pronina - Research Cosmonaut

Mission parameters:
*Mass: 6,850 kg
*Perigee: 289 km
*Apogee: 299 km
*Inclination: 51.6°
*Period: 90.3 minutes