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Intercosmos

The Intercosmos program was a program by the Soviet Union to make the fellow Socialist nations participate in space exploration. Most notable were the manned space flight missions, but also unmanned satellites were part of the program.

Date	Prime cosmonaut	Backup cosmonaut	Nation	Mission
February 3, 1978	Vladimir Remek[?]	Oldrich Pelcak[?]	Czechoslovakia	Soyuz 28[?]
June 27, 1978	Miroslaw Hermaszewski[?]	Zenon Jankowski[?]	Poland	Soyuz 30[?]
August 26, 1978	Sigmund Jähn	Eberhard Köllner[?]	East Germany	Soyuz 31[?]
April 10, 1979	Georgi Ivanov[?]	Aleksandr P. Aleksandrov[?]	Bulgaria	Soyuz 33[?]
May 26, 1980	Bertalan Farkas[?]	Bela Magyari[?]	Hungary	Soyuz 36[?]
July 23, 1980	Tuan Pham[?]	Thanh Liem Bui[?]	Vietnam	Soyuz 37[?]
September 18, 1980	Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez[?]	Jose Lopez Falcon[?]	Cuba	Soyuz 38[?]
March 23, 1981	Zhugderdemidiyn Gurragcha[?]	Maidarzhavyn Ganzorig[?]	Mongolia	Soyuz 39[?]
May 14, 1981	Dumitru Prunariu[?]	Dumitru Dediu[?]	Romania	Soyuz 40[?]

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