Warsaw Pact and other Soviet-allied) countries to fly on its missions, with the notable exceptions of France and Austria participating in Soyuz TM-7 and Soyuz TM-13, respectively. An example is Czechoslovak Vladimír Remek, the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States, who flew to space in 1978 on a Soyuz-U rocket.
The Warsaw Pact and other Soviet-allied countries permitted astronauts from these nations to join its missions, with France and Austria making exceptions by participating in Soyuz TM-7 and Soyuz TM-13. A notable instance is Czechoslovak Vladimír Remek, the first non-Soviet or American cosmonaut, who ventured into space in 1978 aboard a Soyuz-U rocket.