Nov 14 1982
From The Space Library
November 14-18: Soviet cosmonauts Anatoly Berezovoy and Valentin Lebedev on November 14 broke the 185-day record in space set by two compatriots, Leonid Popov and Valery Ryumin, in October 1980. Berezovoy and Lebedev were in their 186th day on board the orbiting Salyut 7 space station, where they would remain for several more weeks. The longest U.S. spaceflight was the 84 days spend on the Skylab station in 1974 by astronauts Gerald Carr, Edward Gibson, and William Pogue.
Salyut 7 had been visited twice by the other crews: on June 24 two veteran cosmonauts arrived with French test pilot Jean-Loup Chretien, the first non-American from the West to travel in space; on August 19, a second set of visitors arrived, including Svetlana Savitskaya, the second woman to fly in space.
Cargo ship Progress 16 had docked with the combined Salyut 7-Soyuz T-7 November 2 bringing fuel, research materials, supplies for the crew, and mail. On November 18 the cosmonauts launched from Salyut 7s airlock Iskra 3, a small communications satellite created by student designers at the Moscow Aviation Institute to make experiments in amateur radio. Student receiving stations in Moscow and Kaluga would control Iskra 3 and receive and process incoming data. (NY Times, Nov 15/82, B-6; FBIS, Tass in English, Nov 2, 9, 16, 18, 22/82)
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