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, Hero of the Soviet Union, flight engineer, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Aleksandr Sergeyevich Ivanchenkov and French cosmonaut-researcher Jean Loup Chretien, on the launch pad of the cosmodrome. Valentin Kuzmin, Albert Pushkarev/TASS