Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 1/5 launched Soyuz 29 with Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov on the long-duration Salyut 6 EO-2 expedition, setting up a multi-month residency that hosted visiting crews and Progress freighters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 109th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 June 1978, 20:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1978-061
- Launches in 1978
- 63rd of 128
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