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Intercosmos - Definition and Overview

The Intercosmos program was a program by the Soviet Union to make the fellow Socialist nations participate in space exploration. Most notable were the manned space flight missions, but also unmanned satellites were part of the program.

Date Prime cosmonaut Backup cosmonaut Nation Mission
February 3, 1978Vladimír RemekOldrich PelcakCzechoslovakiaSoyuz 28
June 27, 1978Miroslaw HermaszewskiZenon JankowskiPolandSoyuz 30
August 26, 1978Sigmund JähnEberhard KöllnerEast GermanySoyuz 31
April 10, 1979Georgi IvanovAleksandr P. AleksandrovBulgariaSoyuz 33
May 26, 1980Bertalan FarkasBela MagyariHungarySoyuz 36
July 23, 1980Tuân PhamThanh Liem BuiVietnamSoyuz 37
September 18, 1980Arnaldo Tamayo MéndezJose Lopez FalconCubaSoyuz 38
March 23, 1981Zhugderdemidiyn GurragchaMaidarzhavyn GanzorigMongoliaSoyuz 39
May 14, 1981Dumitru PrunariuDumitru DediuRomaniaSoyuz 40

Example Usage of Intercosmos
braincoffee: RT @Radeeboi: @braincoffee Oh that satellite was Intercosmos 24! /// It was looking brilliant this evening! :-)
Radeeboi: @braincoffee Oh that satellite was Intercosmos 24!
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