# sm089 Soyuz T manned space ship

8.5 x 11 inches metal exclusive hand made model of Space Corporation Energia.Availability and price check by e-mail or call. Soyuz-T first manned flight took place in 1980 and flown by Malyshev and Aksyonov as first test flight of improved Soyuz. In this Soyuz T-2 mission new guidance system failed on approach to Salyut-6, although the cosmonauts were able to dock manually. There were two more Soyuz-T flights to Salyut-6 space station till in 1982 Anatoliy Berezovoy flown Soyuz T-5 to new Salyut-7 station,with 10 more Soyuz -T flights next. Space endurance record holders Kizim and Solovyov were launched in the last Soyuz T-15 vehicle to perform difficult duel mission:to activate the new MIR space station (launched February 20,1986) and to retrieve vital scientific experiments from Salyut-7 station.Cosmonauts used Soyuz T-15 to transfer from station to station.