The crew quickly set to performing experiments and fixing or replacing equipment.

[4] More medical experiments were performed in June 1975, and attempts were made to grow plants, including onions.

On 3 July 1975, it was announced that the mission would last beyond the upcoming Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).

The Salyut living conditions were starting to degrade by July 1975, with the environmental control system failing, windows fogged over and green mold growing on the station walls.

[4] The cosmonauts exited the capsule under their own power, but it was two days before Klimuk could take a 10-minute walk, and a week before he made a full recovery.