Soyuz 27 (, ''Union 27'') was a 1978
Soviet
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crewed spacecraft which flew to the orbiting
Salyut 6 space station, during the mission
EP-1.
It was the third crewed flight to the station, the second successful docking and the first visitation mission. Once docked, it marked the first time that three spacecraft were docked together.
The main function of the EP-1 mission was to swap Soyuz craft with the orbiting crew, in so doing freeing a docking port for a forthcoming supply tanker.
Cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and
Oleg Makarov returned to Earth in the
Soyuz 26 spacecraft after spending five days on the station. The descent module is displayed at the
Sergei Pavlovich Korolyov Museum of Cosmonautics in
Zhytomyr
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,
Ukraine
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.
Crew
Backup crew
Mission parameters
* Mass:
* Perigee:
* Apogee:
* Inclination: 51.65°
* Period: 88.73 minutes
References
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Crewed Soyuz missions
1978 in the Soviet Union
Spacecraft launched in 1978
Spacecraft which reentered in 1978
Spacecraft launched by Soyuz-U rockets
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