Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Soyuz T-13 was a Soyuz mission a human spaceflight mission transporting personnel to the Russian space station Salyut 7. The eighth expedition to the orbital station the mission launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz-U2 carrier rocket at 06:39:52 UTC on 1985-06-06. It is of note because it marked the first time a spacecraft had docked with a ‘dead’ space station and the first time such a station had been returned to operational status following repairs.