#interkosmos

The Pamirs: Soyuz-39! 🚀🇲🇳🇷🇺

Doodled them yesterday, commemorating their launch in 22 of march 1981.

(Ye it's kinda messy it's a small doodle awawa)

Happy anniversary!

Farkas Bertalan during training

Farkas along with Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, was launched into space on Soyuz 36 to the Salyut 6 space station, as visiting crew for the resident Soyuz 35 crew on May 26, 1980. After 7 days, 20 hours and 45 minutes, and having completed 124 orbits the visiting he returned back to Earth.

Farkas Bertalan and Valery Kubasov preparing for the flight.

After boarding they completed so many experiments they barely had time to rest, only sleeping 3 hours a day.

"When Yuri Gagarin flew into space, I was only 12.. I can't believe I’m gonna fly after him. It’s unbelievable that human can work, live in zero gravity. 25 years have passed since then but his historical feat….”.

Farkas Bertalan and Valery Kubasov in Budapest after returning to Earth.

Farkas Bertalan was the hero of the soviet union title on June 30th 1980 and upon returning to Hungary he was gifted a hungarian made bicycle by factory workers.

The audience listened intently as Valery Bykovsky and Sigmund Jähn shared stories about their mission, how the flight went, the warm welcome they received aboard Salyut-6 from Vladimir Kovalyonok and Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, and the details of the scientific, technical, and medical experiments developed by Soviet and East German specialists.

But the journalists weren’t satisfied yet. They kept throwing questions at the cosmonauts. One of them asked: “How would you rate the success of the mission yourselves?”

Bykovsky (smiling): You think we should grade ourselves? No, I’ll pass on that. But if it’s about Sigmund’s work, on a five-point scale, I’ll gladly give him a solid five...and I’d even add a plus!

Jähn (matching his commander’s tone): And I’d give Valery a five-plus too!

“fully automated luxury gay space communism”