Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 launched Soyuz 32 with cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakhov and Valery Ryumin to Salyut 6 as EO-3; the capsule later returned uncrewed after the Soyuz 33 engine failure left them without a fresh ferry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 138th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 February 1979, 11:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1979-018
- Launches in 1979
- 19th of 110
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