\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> April 9, 1980
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 184 days 20 hr 12 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Leonid I Popov, Valery V Ryumin
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Marathon mission to Salyut 6, setting a new duration record and making Ryumin the most travelled spaceman to date - some 240 million km by his return; the cosmonauts receive visits from Soyuz 36, Soyuz T-2, Soyuz 37 and Soyuz 38; they return in Soyuz 37.