Soyuz T-6, a crewed visiting mission to Salyut 7 with Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and France's Jean-Loup Chrétien—the first French astronaut. After a manual docking, the crew spent about a week on joint Soviet–French experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.9 T
- Flight
- 287th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 1982, 16:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1982-063
- Launches in 1982
- 66th of 129
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