This year was as pretty much routine as would be possible with a steady stream of Soyuz and Progress flights to Salyut 6. Soyuz-T got it's first crew outing with the visiting Soyuz T-2 flight.
Visiting cosmonauts continued to come and go.
| Date |
Time (UTC) |
Event |
| 1980 Mar 27 |
18:53 |
Progress 8 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into approx 190 x 250 kilometre orbit |
| 1980 Mar 29 |
20:01 |
Progress 8 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 340 x 344 kilometres |
| 1980 Apr 9 |
13:38 |
Soyuz 35 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 193 x 243 kilometre orbit with Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin aboard (Ryumin was a late replacement for Valentin Lebedev who injured a knee shortly before the mission ) |
| 1980 Apr 10 |
15:16 |
Soyuz 35 docks at the forward port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 336 x 346 kilometres |
| 1980 Apr 25 |
08:04 |
Progress 8 undocks |
| 1980 Apr 26 |
06:54 |
Progress 8 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry |
| 1980 Apr 26 |
07:40 |
Approx time - Progress 8 enters the Earth atmosphere above the southern Pacific Ocean and is destroyed by frictional heating |
| 1980 Apr 27 |
06:24 |
Progress 9 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 185 x 255 kilometre orbit |
| 1980 Apr 29 |
08:09 |
Progress 9 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 333 x 362 kilometres |
| 1980 May 20 |
18:51 |
Progress 9 undocks |
| 1980 May 22 |
00:44 |
Progress 9 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry |
| 1980 May 22 |
01:30 |
Approx time - Progress 9 enters the Earth atmosphere above the southern Pacific Ocean and is destroyed by frictional heating |
| 1980 May 26 |
18:20 |
Soyuz 36 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 191 x 265 kilometre orbit with Valery Kubasov and Bertalan Farkas (Hungary) aboard |
| 1980 May 27 |
19:56 |
Soyuz 36 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 334 x 355 kilometres |
| 1980 Jun 3 |
11:47 |
Soyuz 35 undocks with Kubasov and Farkas aboard |
| 1980 Jun 3 |
15:07 |
Soyuz 35 lands - 140 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan |
| 1980 Jun 4 |
16:39 |
Popov and Ryumin undock Soyuz 36, wait for Salyut 6 to execute a 180 degree turn, and re-dock with the forward port of Salyut 6 - the operation takes approx 90 minutes |
| 1980 Jun 5 |
14:19 |
Soyuz T-2 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 195 x 231 kilometre orbit with Yuri Malyshev and Vladimir Aksyonov aboard - it is a test flight, the first Soyuz T-with a crew |
| 1980 Jun 6 |
15:58 |
Soyuz T-2 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 334 x 349 kilometres |
| 1980 Jun 9 |
09:20 |
Soyuz T-2 undocks with Malyshev and Aksyonov on board |
| 1980 Jun 9 |
12:39 |
Soyuz T-2 lands - 200 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan |
| 1980 Jun 29 |
04:40 |
Progress 10 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 183 x 264 kilometre orbit |
| 1980 Jul 1 |
05:53 |
Progress 10 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 325 x 340 kilometres |
| 1980 Jul 17 |
22:21 |
Progress 10 undocks |
| 1980 Jul 19 |
01:47 |
Progress 10 fires its manoeuvring engine to initiate re-entry |
| 1980 Jul 19 |
02:30 |
Approx time - Progress 10 enters the Earth atmosphere above the southern Pacific Ocean and is destroyed by frictional heating |
| 1980 Jul 23 |
18:33 |
Soyuz 37 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 190 x 273 kilometre orbit with Viktor Gorbatko and Pham Tuan (Viet Nam) aboard |
| 1980 Jul 24 |
20:02 |
Soyuz 37 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 336 x 351 kilometres |
| 1980 Jul 31 |
11:55 |
Soyuz 36 undocks with Gorbatko and Pham Tuan aboard |
| 1980 Jul 31 |
15:15 |
Soyuz 36 lands - 180 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan |
| 1980 Aug 1 |
16:43 |
Popov and Ryumin undock Soyuz 37, wait for Salyut 6 to execute a 180 degree turn, and re-dock with the forward port of Salyut 6 - the operation takes 97 minutes |
| 1980 Sep 18 |
19:11 |
Soyuz 38 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 195 x 256 kilometre orbit with Yuri Romanenko and Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez aboard |
| 1980 Sep 19 |
20:49 |
Soyuz 38 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 338 x 350 kilometres |
| 1980 Sep 26 |
12:34 |
Soyuz 38 undocks with Romanenko and Tamayo-Mendez aboard |
| 1980 Sep 26 |
15:54 |
Soyuz 38 lands - 175 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan |
| 1980 Sep 28 |
15:09 |
Progress 11 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome by Soyuz rocket into 189 x 247 kilometre orbit - part of it mission is to support the upcoming Soyuz T-3 occupancy of Salyut 6 |
| 1980 Sep 30 |
17:03 |
Progress 11 docks at the aft port of Salyut 6 - orbit is 333 x 339 kilometres |
| 1980 Oct 11 |
06:32 |
Soyuz 37 undocks |
| 1980 Oct 11 |
09:49 |
Soyuz 37 lands -180 kilometres south-east of Dzhezhkazgan |
