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| Salyut 5 (OPS #103-01) |
June 22, 1976 (18:04 GMT) |
August 8, 1977 | Salyut 5 (Almaz OPS-3 space station) |
USSR | Perigee: 219 km Apogee: 260 km Inclination: 51.6° 6,630 orbits |
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| Launch Vehicle Proton-K #290-02 |
Site-81L (Launch Pad 23) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Time 411 days |
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| Soyuz 21 (7K-T(A9) #41) |
July 6, 1976 (12:08 GMT) |
August 24, 1976 (18:33 GMT) |
Commander: Boris Volynov (2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 193.4 km Apogee: 253.3 km Inclination: 51.62° 791 orbits |
| Flight Engineer: Vitali Zholobov (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 2) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
200 km SW of Kokchetav (52° N, 68° E) |
1st Backup Crew: Vyacheslav Zudov | USSR | M | Time 49 days 6 hours 23 minutes |
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| 1st Backup Crew: Valeri Rozhdestvensky | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Viktor Gorbatko | USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Docked with Salyut 5 July 7, 1976 (13:40 GMT) |
Undocked from Salyut 5 August 24, 1976 (15:12 GMT) |
2nd Backup Crew: Yuri Glazkov | USSR | M | |
| 3rd Backup Crew: Anatoli Berezovoy | USSR | M | ||||
| 3rd Backup Crew: Mikhail Lisun | USSR | M | ||||
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| Soyuz 22 (7K-TM(MF6) #74) |
September 15, 1976 (09:48 GMT) |
September 23, 1976 (07:40 GMT) |
Commander: Valeri Bykovsky (2nd Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 1) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 192.6 km Apogee: 317.9 km Inclination: 64.76° 127 orbits |
| Flight Engineer: Vladimir Aksyonov (1st Flight) (TsKBEM Detachment - Group 3) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
150 km NW of Tselinograd (51° N, 73° E) |
1st Backup Crew: Yuri Malyshev | USSR | M | Time 7 days 21 hours 52 minutes |
| 1st Backup Crew: Gennadi Strekalov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Leonid Popov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Boris Andreyev | USSR | M | ||||
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| Soyuz 23 (7K-T(A9) #65) |
October 14, 1976 (17:39 GMT) |
October 16, 1976 (17:45 GMT) |
Commander: Vyacheslav Zudov (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 3) |
USSR | M | Perigee: 194.2 km Apogee: 249.9 km Inclination: 51.63° 32 orbits |
| Flight Engineer: Valeri Rozhdestvensky (1st Flight) (TsPK Detachment - Group 3) |
USSR | M | ||||
| Launch Vehicle Soyuz-U |
Site-1 (Launch Pad 5) Baikonur Cosmodrome |
Lake Tengiz (51° N, 69° E) |
1st Backup Crew: Viktor Gorbatko | USSR | M | Time 2 days 0 hours 6 minutes |
| 1st Backup Crew: Yuri Glazkov | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Anatoli Berezovoy | USSR | M | ||||
| 2nd Backup Crew: Mikhail Lisun | USSR | M | ||||
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