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Soyuz 37

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Soyuz 37 (Союз 37, Union 37) was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the 13th mission to and 11th successful docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 37 crew were the third to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew. Soyuz 37 carried Soviet Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuân, the first Asian and first Vietnamese cosmonaut, into space. They swapped Soyuz craft with the long-duration crew and returned to earth in Soyuz 36, the resident crew later used their craft to return to earth. [1]

30 relations: Asia, Astronaut, Azolla, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Bùi Thanh Liêm, Energia (corporation), Gagarin's Start, Geocentric orbit, Jezkazgan, Leonid Popov, Life support system, List of life sciences, Low Earth orbit, Phạm Tuân, Process (engineering), Salyut 6, Soviet Union, Soyuz 35, Soyuz 36, Soyuz 38, Soyuz 7K-T, Soyuz programme, Soyuz T-2, Soyuz-U, Space station, Terek River, Valery Bykovsky, Valery Ryumin, Vietnam, Viktor Gorbatko.

Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

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Astronaut

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

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Azolla

Azolla (mosquito fern, duckweed fern, fairy moss, water fern) is a genus of seven species of aquatic ferns in the family Salviniaceae.

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Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome (translit; translit) is a spaceport located in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to Russia.

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Bùi Thanh Liêm

Bùi Thanh Liêm (June 30, 1949 - September 26, 1981) was a Vietnamese cosmonaut (astronaut).

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Energia (corporation)

PAO S. P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Raketno-kosmicheskaya korporatsiya “Energiya” im.), also known as RSC Energia (РКК «Энергия», RKK “Energiya”), is a Russian manufacturer of ballistic missile, spacecraft and space station components.

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Gagarin's Start

Gagarin's Start (Гагаринский старт, Gagarinskiy start) is a launch site at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, used for the Soviet space program and now managed by Roscosmos State Corporation.

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Geocentric orbit

A geocentric orbit or Earth orbit involves any object orbiting Planet Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites.

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Jezkazgan

Jezkazgan or Zhezkazgan (Жезқазған / Jezqazğan/ جەزقازعان), formerly known as Dzhezkazgan (Джезказган, until 1992), is a city in Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan, on a reservoir of the Kara-Kengir River.

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Leonid Popov

Leonid Ivanovich Popov (Леони́д Ива́нович Попо́в; born August 31, 1945) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.

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Life support system

In human spaceflight, a life support system is a group of devices that allow a human being to survive in space.

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List of life sciences

The life sciences or biological sciences comprise the branches of science that involve the scientific study of life and organisms – such as microorganisms, plants, and animals including human beings – as well as related considerations like bioethics.

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Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth with an altitude of or less, and with an orbital period of between about 84 and 127 minutes.

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Phạm Tuân

Phạm Tuân (born February 14, 1947) is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator.

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Process (engineering)

In engineering, a process is a series of interrelated tasks that, together, transform inputs into outputs.

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Salyut 6

Salyut 6 (Салют-6; lit. Salute 6), DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Soyuz 35

Soyuz 35 (Союз 35, Union 35) was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station.

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Soyuz 36

Soyuz 36 (Союз 36, Union 36) was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station.

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Soyuz 38

Soyuz 38 was a human spaceflight mission conducted by the Soviet Union during September, 1980.

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Soyuz 7K-T

The second generation of the Soyuz spacecraft, the Soyuz Ferry or Soyuz 7K-T, comprised Soyuz 12 through Soyuz 40 (1973-1981).

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Soyuz programme

The Soyuz programme (Союз, meaning "Union") is a human spaceflight programme that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon.

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Soyuz T-2

Soyuz T-2 (Союз T-2, Union T-2) was a 1980 Soviet manned space flight to the Salyut 6 space station.

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Soyuz-U

The Soyuz-U launch vehicle was an improved version of the original Soyuz rocket.

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Space station

A space station, also known as an orbital station or an orbital space station, is a spacecraft capable of supporting crewmembers, which is designed to remain in space (most commonly as an artificial satellite in low Earth orbit) for an extended period of time and for other spacecraft to dock.

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Terek River

The Terek River (Terk), a major river in the Northern Caucasus, flows through Georgia and Russia into the Caspian Sea.

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Valery Bykovsky

Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский; born 2 August 1934) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31.

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Valery Ryumin

Valery Victorovich Ryumin (born August 16, 1939 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.

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Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia.

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Viktor Gorbatko

Viktor Vasilyevich Gorbatko (Ви́ктор Васи́льевич Горба́тко; December 3, 1934 – May 17, 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_37

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