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 participate in its missions, excluding France and Austria, which joined Soyuz TM-7 and Soyuz TM-13. An example is Czechoslovak Vladimír Remek, the first non-Soviet or American cosmonaut, who flew into space in 1978 on a Soyuz-U rocket.