\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> February 25, 1979
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 175 days 36 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Vladimir A Lyakhov, Valery V Ryumin
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Long-stay mission to Salyut 6, with crew setting new space duration record; crew carry out essential repairs, including a spacewalk to free a radio telescope jammed while being jettisoned; they increase exercise load to try to combat effects of weightlessness; they return in Soyuz 34, sent up to them unmanned on June 6, 1979; Soyuz 32 is returned to Earth unmanned carrying materials processed in Salyut's Kristall furnace.