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Landing crew—Valeri Kubasov, Bertalan Farkas/Hungary Crew code name—Orion

Returned to Earth carrying the crew launched on Soyuz 36. |}

Soyuz 36 May 26-July 31, 1980
Launch crew—Valeri Kubasov, Bertalan Farkas/Hungary
Crew code name—Orion

Landing crew—Viktor Gorbatko, Pham Tuan/Vietnam
Crew code name—Terek

Hungarian Intercosmos mission. Postponed from June 1979 after the Soyuz 33 main engine failure. Kubasov and Farkas traded their spacecraft for Soyuz 35. Soyuz 36 was later traded for Soyuz 37.

Soyuz 37 July 23-October 11, 1980
Launch crew—Viktor Gorbatko, Pham Tuan/Vietnam

Crew code name—Terek

Landing crew—Leonid Popov, Valeri Ryumin
Crew code name—Dneiper

Intercosmos mission to Salyut 6. Returned the Dneiper long-duration crew launched in Soyuz 35 to Earth.

Soyuz 38 September 18-26, 1980
Yuri Romanenko, Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez/Cuba
Crew code name—Tamyr

Intercosmos mission to visit the Dneipers on Salyut 6.

Soyuz 39 March 22-30, 1981
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Judgerdemidiyin Gurragcha/Mongolia
Crew code name—Pamir

Intercosmos mission to Salyut 6. The Soyuz 39 crew visited Vladimir Kovalyonok and Viktor Savinykh, who were delivered by the Soyuz-T 4 spacecraft.

Soyuz 40 May 14-22, 1981
Leonid Popov, Dmitru Prunariu/Romania
Crew code name—Dneiper

Last Soyuz Ferry flight; ended the first phase of the Intercosmos program, which concentrated on placing citizens of Soviet bloc states into space. In all, nine Intercosmos missions were launched between 1978 and 1981.[1]

  1. Johnson, 1982, p. 28.