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Salyut 6 • Soyuz 36 June 4-6, 1980
Port Transfer. Soyuz 36 was repositioned by rotating Salyut 6, freeing the aft port for Soyuz-T 2.

Soyuz-T 2 • Salyut 6 • Soyuz 36 June 6-9, 19
Soyuz-T 2. This was a manned test flight of the successor to the Soyuz Ferry, the Soyuz-T. Cosmonauts Yuri Malyshev and Vladimir Aksyonov spent only 2 days on Salyut 6 with the Dneiper resident crew.

Salyut 6 • Soyuz 36 June 9-July 1, 1980
Running track breaks. Popov and Ryumin relied heavily on the running track and bicycle ergometer to maintain their fitness so they could return safely to Earth after their prolonged stay in weightlessness. On June 15 their running track broke, but the cosmonauts avoided repairing it for several days, because “it meant unscrewing a lot of bolts and would take a lot of time to repair.” However, doctors on the ground ordered them to increase their level of exercise, so they had to repair the track.,[1] Also at about this time, the cosmonauts repaired the Kaskad attitude control system, in the process expending a large amount of fuel.

Progress 10 • Salyut 6 • Soyuz 36 July 1-17, 1980

Salyut 6 • Soyuz 36 July 17-24, 1980

Soyuz 37 • Salyut 6 • Soyuz 36 July 24-31, 1980
Vietnam in space. Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan of Vietnam arrived aboard Salyut 6 in Soyuz 37, and returned to Earth in Soyuz 36. Tuan’s 30 experiments involved observing Vietnam from space, life sciences (including tests of growth of Vietnamese azolla water ferns, with application to future closed-loop life support systems), and materials processing.

Soyuz 37 • Salyut 6 July 31-August 1, 1980

Soyuz 37 • Salyut 6 August 1-September 19, 1980
Port Transfer. Soyuz 37 was repositioned by rotating Salyut 6, freeing the aft port for Soyuz 38.
  1. Ryumin, p. 38.