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| Apollo 14 | January 31, 1971 (21:03 GMT) |
February 9, 1971 (21:05 GMT) |
Commander: Alan Shepard (2nd Flight) (NASA Group 1) |
USA | M | Earth Orbit Perigee: 183 km Apogee: 185 km Inclination: 31.1° 1.5 orbits 2 moonwalks |
| Command Module Kitty Hawk (CSM-110) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
S of American Samoa Pacific Ocean (27° 1' S, 172° 39' W) |
Command Module Pilot: Stuart Roosa (1st Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | |
| Lunar Module Pilot: Edgar Mitchell (1st Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | ||||
| Lunar Module Antares (LM-8) |
Entered Lunar Orbit February 4, 1971 (06:59 GMT) |
Left Lunar Orbit February 7, 1971 (01:39 GMT) |
Backup Crew: Eugene Cernan | USA | M | Lunar Orbit Perilune: 63.9 n mi Apolune: 56.0 n mi 34 orbits |
| Backup Crew: Ronald Evans | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Joseph Engle | USA | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Saturn V #AS-509 |
Lunar Landing February 5, 1971 (09:18 GMT) |
Lunar Liftoff February 6, 1971 (18:48 GMT) |
Support Crew: William Pogue | USA | M | Time 9 days 0 hours 1 minute |
| Support Crew: Gordon Fullerton | USA | M | ||||
| Lunar Landing Site: Fra Mauro | Support Crew: Bruce McCandless | USA | M | |||
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| Salyut 1 (17K #121) |
April 19, 1971 (01:40 GMT) |
October 10, 1971 | Salyut 1 (Salyut DOS 1 space station) |
USSR | Perigee: 200 km Apogee: 222 km Inclination: 51.6° |
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| Launch Vehicle Proton-K #254-01 |
Site-81P (Launch Pad 24) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Time 174 days |
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| Soyuz 10 (7K-OKS #31) |
April 22, 1971 (23:54 GMT) |
April 24, 1971 (23:40 GMT) |
Commander: Vladimir Shatalov (3rd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 2) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 209.6 km Apogee: 248.4 km Inclination: 51.6° 32 orbits |
| Flight Engineer: Aleksei Yeliseyev (3rd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Systems Engineer: Nikolai Rukavishnikov (1st Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
120 km NW of Karaganda (51° N, 72° E) |
1st Backup Crew: Aleksei Leonov | USSR | M | Time 1 day 23 hours 45 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Valeri Kubasov | USSR | M | ||||
| 1st Backup Crew: Pyotr Kolodin | USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz |
Docked with Salyut 1 April 24, 1971 (01:47 GMT) |
Undocked from Salyut 1 April 24, 1971 (07:17 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Georgi Dobrovolsky | USSR | M | |
| 2nd Backup Crew: Vladislav Volkov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Viktor Patsayev | USSR | M | ||||
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| Soyuz 11 (7K-OKS #32) |
June 6, 1971 (04:55 GMT) |
June 29, 1971 (23:16 GMT) |
Commander: Georgi Dobrovolsky (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 2) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 191.5 km Apogee: 220.5 km Inclination: 51.64° 384 orbits |
| Flight Engineer: Vladislav Volkov (2nd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | ||||
| The crew died during reentry when the descent module lost its atmosphere through an open value. |
Research Engineer: Viktor Patsayev (1st Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | |||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
near Karaganda (47° 20' N, 70° 24' E) |
1st Backup Crew: Aleksei Leonov | USSR | M | Time 23 days 18 hours 21 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Valeri Kubasov | USSR | M | ||||
| 1st Backup Crew: Pyotr Kolodin | USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz |
Docked with Salyut 1 June 7, 1971 (07:49 GMT) |
Undocked from Salyut 1 June 29, 1971 (18:28 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Aleksei Gubarev | USSR | M | |
| 2nd Backup Crew: Vitali Sevastiyanov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Anatoli Voronov | USSR | M | ||||
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| Apollo 15 | July 26, 1971 (13:34 GMT) |
August 7, 1971 (20:45 GMT) |
Commander: David Scott (3rd Flight) (NASA Group 3) |
USA | M | Earth Orbit Perigee: 166 km Apogee: 169 km Inclination: 29.7° 1.5 orbits 4 moonwalks 1 spacewalk |
| Command Module Endeavour (CSM-112) |
Launch Pad 39A Kennedy Space Center, Florida |
500 km N of Hawaii Pacific Ocean (26° 7' N, 158° 8' W) |
Command Module Pilot: Alfred Worden (1st Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | |
| Lunar Module Pilot: James Irwin (1st Flight) (NASA Group 5) |
USA | M | ||||
| Lunar Module Falcon (LM-10) |
Entered Lunar Orbit July 29, 1971 (20:05 GMT) |
Left Lunar Orbit August 4, 1971 (21:22 GMT) |
Backup Crew: Richard Gordon | USA | M | Lunar Orbit Perilune: 65.2 n mi Apolune: 54.8 n mi 74 orbits |
| Backup Crew: Vance Brand | USA | M | ||||
| Backup Crew: Harrison Schmitt | USA | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Saturn V #AS-510 |
Lunar Landing July 30, 1971 (22:16 GMT) |
Lunar Liftoff August 2, 1971 (17:11 GMT) |
Support Crew: Joseph Allen | USA | M | Time 12 days 7 hours 12 minutes |
| Support Crew: Karl Henize | USA | M | ||||
| Lunar Landing Site: Hadley-Apennine | Support Crew: Robert Parker | USA | M | |||
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