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Beyond Interkosmos: Soyuz T-6

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With the Soyuz-40 mission, which had carried Leonid Popov and Romanian cosmonaut-researcher Dumitru Prunariu to the Salyut-6 station, the structured Interkosmos program of flying Eastern Bloc participants on week-long flights to the orbiting space laboratory was at an end. However, there were already plans to continue to fly other international ‘guests’ on science missions with bilateral agreements, and the participants were no longer restricted to fraternal socialist nations.

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  1. Bangor, New South Wales, Australia

    Colin Burgess

  2. Den Haag, The Netherlands

    Bert Vis

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Burgess, C., Vis, B. (2016). Beyond Interkosmos: Soyuz T-6. In: Interkosmos. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24163-0_11

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