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    Soyuz 7K-T No.39 (also named Soyuz 18a or Soyuz 18-1 by some sources and also known as the April 5 Anomaly): 192–3  was an unsuccessful launch of a crewed...
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    second generation of the Soyuz spacecraft, the Soyuz 7K-T, comprised Soyuz 12 through Soyuz 40 (1973–1981). In the wake of the Soyuz 11 tragedy, the spacecraft...
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  • Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L, sometimes known as Soyuz T-10a or Soyuz T-10-1, was an unsuccessful Soyuz mission intended to visit the Salyut 7 space station, which...
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    modified 7K (1963) Soyuz 7K-OK (1967–1970) Soyuz 7K-L1 Zond (1967–1970) Soyuz 7K-L3 LOK (1971–1972) Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971); also known as 7KT-OK Soyuz 7K-T or...
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    The Soyuz 40 mission was a 1981 Soviet crewed spaceflight and the final flight of the Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft. It was a collaboration between the Soviet...
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    Soyuz 39 was a 1981 Soviet crewed space flight to the Salyut 6 space station. It was the fifteenth expedition, and carried the eighth international crew...
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  • first-generation (1.0) Soyuz 7K-OK, a variant (1.5) Soyuz 7K-OKS, the second-generation (2.0) Soyuz 7K-T, and the (2.5) Soyuz 7K-TM variant. Following this first era...
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    0 km (134.8 mi; 117.2 nmi) Inclination: 51.6° Period: 88.3 minutes The Soyuz 7K-OKS spacecraft was launched on 6 June 1971, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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    Leninsk (See Tyuratam). June 26, 1971: serial number 6L – dummy Soyuz 7K-LOK (Soyuz 7K-L1E No.1) and dummy LK module-spacecraft Soon after lift-off, due to...
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    Soyuz 17 (Russian: Союз 17, Union 17) was the first of two long-duration missions to the Soviet Union's Salyut 4 space station in 1975. The flight by...
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    Soyuz 18 (Russian: Союз 18, Union 18) was a 1975 Soviet crewed mission to Salyut 4, the second and final crew to man the space station. Pyotr Klimuk and...
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    aboard Soyuz 7K-T No.39 (also Soyuz 18a), which was intended as orbital, but aborted before reaching orbit. Vasily Lazarev (1928–1990) — Soyuz 18a (1975);...
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    Sergei Krikalev, who spent 803 days, 9 hours and 39 minutes (about 2.2 years) during six spaceflights on Soyuz, the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the International...
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  • aboard Soyuz 11 were Vladislav Volkov, Georgy Dobrovolsky, and Viktor Patsayev. On April 5, 1975, Soyuz 7K-T No.39, the second stage of a Soyuz rocket...
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    station. Progress 39 launched on 25 December 1988 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR. It used a Soyuz-U2 rocket. Progress 39 docked with the...
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    Mars missions, the joint American-Soviet Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the failure of Soyuz 7K-T 39, and the launch of Aryabhatta, India's first satellite...
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    designed to rehearse a piloted circumlunar flight, an uncrewed version of Soyuz 7K-L1 crewed circumlunar flight spacecraft. The project was initiated in 1965...
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    Soyuz 23 (Russian: Союз 23, Union 23) was an October 1976, Soviet crewed space flight, the second to the Salyut 5 space station. Cosmonauts Vyacheslav...
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    — Soyuz 11 Lev Dyomin (1926–1998) — Soyuz 15 Vladimir Dzhanibekov* — Soyuz 27/26, Soyuz 39, Soyuz T-12, Soyuz T-13 Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009)...
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    escape system occurred during the attempted launch of the uncrewed Soyuz 7K-OK No.1 spacecraft on December 14, 1966. The vehicle's strap-on boosters did...
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    remained a strong contender for Soyuz 1 until he was replaced by Komarov in April 1966 and reassigned to Soyuz 3. The Soyuz 1 launch was rushed due to implicit...
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  • Family". Jonathan's Space Page. Retrieved 21 December 2008. Wade, Mark. "Soyuz". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 7 January 2010...
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    Space capsule (section Soyuz)
    The first (Soyuz 1) and last (Soyuz 11) resulted in the first in-space fatalities. Korolev had developed a 9,850-kilogram (21,720 lb) 7K-LOK variant...
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    Space Race (section Soyuz 1)
    stripped-down Soyuz 7K-L1 "Zond", while still retaining the Proton UR-500 booster. In order to fit two crewmembers, the Zond had to omit the Soyuz orbital module...
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  • expeditions List of commanders of the ISS This duration measured the length of Soyuz TMA-18M from start to finish. Kelly and Korniyenko were to remain aboard...
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    docking at the orbiting facility. The Soyuz 36 crew were the first to visit the long-duration Soyuz 35 resident crew. Soyuz 36 carried Valery Kubasov and Bertalan...
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    While Soyuz T-15 was at Salyut 7, the uncrewed Soyuz TM-1 arrived at the unoccupied Mir and remained for 9 days, testing the new Soyuz TM model. Soyuz T-15...
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    as a modernised version of the Progress 7K-TG spacecraft, using new systems developed for the Soyuz-T and Soyuz-TM spacecraft. The 11F61560 variant incorporated...
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    aboard Salyut 6 past the three-month lifespan of the first-generation Soyuz 7K vehicle. Salyut 6 was not occupied continuously, or "handed off" from one...
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    resupply spacecraft, Progress 7K-TG, had been used for resupply missions to Soviet space stations since 1978. Progress 39 delivered 1,300 kg of supplies...
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