Manned Spaceflights - 1974

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Flight Launch Landing Name Country   Parameters
Salyut 3
(OPS #101-02)
June 25, 1974
(22:38 GMT)
January 25, 1975 Salyut 3
(Almaz OPS-2 space station)
USSR   Perigee: 219 km
Apogee: 270 km
Inclination: 51.62°
Launch Vehicle
Proton-K #283-02
Site-81L (Launch Pad 23)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Time
212 days

Soyuz 14
(7K-T(A9) #62)
July 3, 1974
(18:51 GMT)
July 19, 1974
(12:21 GMT)
Commander: Pavel Popovich
(2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 1)
USSR M Perigee: 195.9 km
Apogee: 242.7 km
Inclination: 51.62°
252 orbits
Flight Engineer: Yuri Artyukhin
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 2)
USSR M
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
140 km SE of Dzhezkazgan
(46° N, 69° E)
1st Backup Crew: Boris Volynov USSR M Time
15 days
17 hours
30 minutes
1st Backup Crew: Vitali Zholobov USSR M
2nd Backup Crew: Gennadi Sarafanov USSR M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz
Docked with Salyut 3
July 4, 1974

(20:35 GMT)
Undocked from Salyut 3
July 19, 1974

(09:03 GMT)
2nd Backup Crew: Lev Dyomin USSR M
3rd Backup Crew: Vyacheslav Zudov USSR M
3rd Backup Crew: Valeri Rozhdestvensky USSR M

Soyuz 15
(7K-T(A9) #63)
August 26, 1974
(19:58 GMT)
August 28, 1974
(20:10 GMT)
Commander: Gennadi Sarafanov
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 3)
USSR M Perigee: 193.4 km
Apogee: 235.2 km
Inclination: 51.62°
32 orbits
Flight Engineer: Lev Dyomin
(1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 2)
USSR M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
48 km SW of Tselinograd
(51° N, 71° E)
Backup Crew: Vyacheslav Zudov USSR M Time
2 days
0 hours
12 minutes
Backup Crew: Valeri Rozhdestvensky USSR M

Soyuz 16
(7K-TM #73)
December 2, 1974
(09:40 GMT)
December 8, 1974
(08:03 GMT)
Commander: Anatoli Filipchenko
(2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 2)
USSR M Perigee: 191.7 km
Apogee: 314.8 km
Inclination: 51.79°
97 orbits
Flight Engineer: Nikolai Rukavishnikov
(2nd Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 1)
USSR M
Launch Vehicle
Soyuz-U
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
30 km NE of Arkalyk
(51° N, 69° E)
1st Backup Crew: Yuri Romanenko USSR M Time
5 days
22 hours
23 minutes
1st Backup Crew: Aleksandr Ivanchenkov USSR M
2nd Backup Crew: Vladimir Dzhanibekov USSR M
2nd Backup Crew: Boris Andreyev USSR M

Salyut 4
(17K #124)
December 26, 1974
(04:15 GMT)
February 2, 1977
(23:31 GMT)
Salyut 4
(Salyut DOS 4 space station)
USSR   Perigee: 219 km
Apogee: 270 km
Inclination: 51.6°
12,188 orbits
Launch Vehicle
Proton-K #284-02
Site-81P (Launch Pad 24)
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Time
769 days

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