Soyuz 28, the first Interkosmos crewed flight to Salyut 6, launched on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 1/5 with commander Aleksei Gubarev and Czechoslovak cosmonaut Vladimír Remek—the first person in space who was not a U.S. or Soviet citizen.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 95th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 2 March 1978, 15:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1978-023
- Launches in 1978
- 23rd of 128
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