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Earth → Earth orbit → Earth

June 1985, the real Soyuz T-13 rescue of the dead station; the film's ending is invented, so its dates are unknown.

1Orange lines over the map: the ground under the ship in orbit, from the launch site.
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    Baikonur, Gagarin's Start (Site 1/5) Earth · 6 Jun 1985, 06:39 UTC

    Fyodorov and Alyokhin (modelled on Dzhanibekov and Savinykh) launch to the silent station.

    Soyuz T-13 · 2 days

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    Docking with Salyut 7 Earth, orbit · 8 Jun 1985, 08:50 UTC

    A hand-flown docking with the tumbling, frozen station, then the long work to thaw it out.

    Salyut 7

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    Fire and emergency spacewalk Earth, orbit · date unknown

    Invented for the film: a fire breaks out and the cosmonauts go outside to fix the solar sensor, watched by a passing Space Shuttle.

    Soyuz T-13

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    Return to Earth Earth · date unknown

    The crew comes home in Soyuz T-13 (the English dub hints at an Indian Ocean splashdown; really Dzhanibekov landed in Kazakhstan in September).