Launch of the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda Region. Launch of the Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the Soyuz T-6 spacecraft piloted by an international crew: twice Hero of the Soviet Union, ship commander, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov, flight engineer, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Aleksandr Sergeevich Ivanchenkov and French cosmonaut-researcher Jean-Loup Chretien, on the launch pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Valentin Kuzmin, Albert Pushkarev/TASS