Soyuz 39
Launch Date
March 22, 1981
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
2
Soyuz 39
Launch Date
March 22, 1981
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
2
Overview
Soyuz 39 marked the first time a Mongolian reached space. The visitation mission to the sixth long duration Salyut 6 space station crew was the 21st and final back-to-back human spaceflight since July 1975 for which the Soviet Union was the only nation capable of launching people into space.
Crafts
Soyuz
Soyuz is a human-carrying capsule built and operated by Russia, capable of transporting up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded numerous times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crewed vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.
