Soyuz 38 launched by USSR from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 18 September, 1980. This spaceflight was the seventh Interkosmos mission (with Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, the first cosmonaut from Cuba). Following a one day solo flight Soyuz 38 docked with the Salyut 6 space station on 19 September, 1980. The fourth resident crew recorded the ignition and operation of the transports main engine. As the spacecraft approached Salyut 6, the resident crew could see only its “headlights”. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez of Cuba and Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko docked without incident. Scientific work to find reasons of the space adaptation syndrome of the crew together with the fourth resident crew was done. Other goals were Earth observation, solar observation and plant growing experiments, crystal growing experiments. The spacecraft landed 26 September, 1980, landing 175 km southeast of Dzheskasgan. Reference: spacefacts.de/english/flights.htm, Retrieved 22 November, 2011
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