Savitskaya made her first flight from August 19-27, 1982 as a scientist-cosmonaut on the Soyuz T-7 and Soyuz T-5 spaceships and the Salyut-7 long-term orbital station, together with Popov and Serebrov, within the framework of a program related to the second space flight to the Salyut-7 space station.