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Figure 1-29. Soyuz launch pad abort sequence. The modules of the Soyuz spacecraft are shown beneath the launch shroud by dashed lines. Note the separation plane between the Soyuz descent and service modules.

Soyuz-T 11 April 3-October 2, 1984
Launch crew—Yuri Malyshev, Gennadi Strekalov, Rakesh Sharma/India
Crew code name—Yupiter

Landing crew—Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov, Oleg Atkov
Crew code name—Mayak

Carried the first Indian cosmonaut to the Salyut 7 station.

Soyuz-T 12 July 17-29, 1984
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk
Crew code name—Pamir

Volk was a glimpse of things which might have been: he was a Buran shuttle program pilot being flown in space to prove he would be able to pilot Buran back to Earth after an extended stay in space.