Launch of the Soyuz T-7 spacecraft at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda Region. The Soyuz-U launch vehicle with the Soyuz T-7 manned spacecraft before launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad. The crew, consisting of the ship commander, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Leonid Ivanovich Popov, flight engineer Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Serebrov and research cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya, set off as the second expedition to visit the Salyut-7 - Soyuz T-5 orbital scientific complex. Valentin Kuzmin, Oleg Kuzmin/TASS