Soyuz T-8

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Soyuz T-8 was a crewed mission to the Salyut 7 Soviet space station in 1983. Shortly into the mission, the spacecraft failed to dock with the space station due to an incident involving an antenna being torn off the craft by the protective launch shroud. After a fuel-consuming attempt made in darkness for an optical rendezvous with Salyut 7 resulted in an abort in order to avoid collision, it was decided to de-orbit T-8 two days into the mission in order to ensure that the spacecraft had a sufficient amount of propellant for the de-orbit maneuver. After de-orbiting, landing of the craft occurred normally.

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Lyakhov and Aleksandrov in ArkalykLyakhov and Aleksandrov in Arkalyk
Vladimir LyakhovVladimir Lyakhov
Soyuz T-8 Crew PortraitSoyuz T-8 Crew Portrait
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