Soyuz 13

Soyuz 13 was a second test flight of the redesigned Soyuz capsule that first flew as

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Soyuz 12. This particular spacecraft was further specially modified to carry a large camera for astrophysical observations.

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Using this instrument, cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk carried out

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ultraviolet photography of stars and spectroscopic photography of the Earth.

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Once again, the new Soyuz variant performed extremely well when on-board systems were tested.

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Soyuz 12: Soyuz 12 was the test flight of the newly-redesigned Soyuz spacecraft that was intended to...

Camera: A camera is a device used to take pictures (usually photographs), either singly or in sequence, with or without sound, such as with video cameras. The name is derived from camera obscura, Latin for "dark chamber", an early mechanism for projecting images in which an entire room functioned much as th...

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