Soyuz T-3

Soyuz T-3
COSPAR ID	1980-094A
SATCAT no.	12077
Mission duration	12 days, 19 hours, 7 minutes, 42 seconds
Orbits completed	204
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz-T
Manufacturer	NPO Energia
Launch mass	6,850 kilograms (15,100 lb)
Crew
Crew size	3
Members	Leonid Kizim; Oleg Makarov; Gennady Strekalov
Callsign	Mayak (Beacon)
Start of mission
Launch date	27 November 1980, 14:18:28 UTC
Rocket	Soyuz-U
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	10 December 1980, 09:26:10 UTC
Landing site	130 kilometres (81 mi) from Dzhezkazgan
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee altitude	200 kilometres (120 mi)
Apogee altitude	251 kilometres (156 mi)
Inclination	51.6 degrees
Period	88.7 minutes
Docking with Salyut 6
	; 1981 USSR stamp, depicting Soyuz T-3 spacecraft and crew, from left to right: Oleg Makarov, Leonid Kizim, Gennady Strekalov Soyuz programme; (Crewed missions) ← Soyuz 38 Soyuz T-4 →

Soyuz T-3 was a Soviet spaceflight, launched on 27 November 1980 to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the first Soyuz spacecraft to carry three cosmonauts following the fatal Soyuz 11 disaster in 1971.^[1]

The mission was both an early flight of the new Soyuz-T variant craft, as well as one of the later flights to the Salyut 6 station, which had successfully received several crews and visiting craft in recent years. Unlike previous habitations of the station, the crew of Soyuz T-3 did not receive any visitors, and thus did not exchange Soyuz craft with other crews for a return journey, a common practice.

^ Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. p. 130. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.

[Yenne-1] Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. p. 130. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.

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