Certificate of the USSR Aviation Sports Federation  for" Salyut- 6"- “Soyuz-40” mission.

Signed by Soyuz 40 crew cosmonauts Leonid Popov and Dmitry Prunariu, asa well the certificate signed by Soyuz T-4 crew: by cosmonaut Viktor Savinykh and Vladimir Kovalyonok.

Soyuz T-4 was Soviet space mission which launched the crew of Salyut 6 EO-6, the sixth and final long-duration crew of the Salyut 6 space station. It was launched on 12 March 1981 and docked with the station the next day.During their stay, the EO-6 crew was visited by Soyuz-39 and Soyuz -40. Soyuz T-4 returned to Earth on 26 May 1981; its crew were the last to have inhabited Salyut 6

Soyuz-40 mission was a 1981 Soviet crewed spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet Union and Romania.

Size 8” x 11.3/8. Excellent Condition. Rare. USSR watermark paper.

Coat of arms of the USSR on the top of the certificate on the left side and the text is in Cyrillic.

On the right side is  coat of arms of Romania and text is in the Romanian language

Both side of certificate signed.

Translation

Certificate

Hereby certifies that for the first time an international space crew has flown on a spacecraft, docked with a scientific orbital complex and transferred to an orbital station.

The flight was completed from May 14 to May 22, 19781 in accordance with the Intercosmos program by an international crew consisting of USSR citizen Popov Leonid Ivanovich and citizen Social Republic of Romania  Prunariu Dumitru Dorin  the Soyuz 40 spacecraft at the Salyut 6 orbital station.

Scientific and technical experiments were carried out on the scientific orbital complex “Salyut -6”- “Soyuz- 40” in the interests of science and the national economy by two crews consisting of

commander of the spaceship ( missing info)

flight engineer of the spaceship ( mission info)

commander of the spaceship  ( mission info)

cosmonaut-researcher spaceship ( mission info)

USSR pilot-cosmonauts                                              cosmonaut-researcher of Romania

(Signature). Kovalyonok                                       (Signature) Dumitru Prunariu

President of the USSR Aviation Sports Federation (signature) IGherman Tito

Sports Commissioner of the International Aviation Federation (signature) I.G. Borisenko.

The certificate bears the stamp of the Central Aero Club named after V.P. Chkalov

On the other side:

International cooperation in space

USSR Aviation Sports Federation

Member of the International Aviation Federation

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