Soyuz | Kosmos 656
Status: Success | Launched: May 27, 1974 07:25 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: Soviet Space Program (Government)
- Rocket: Soyuz — Soyuz family
Launch Site
- Pad: 1/5
- Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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Program
- Soyuz — The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. The Soyuz spacecraft was originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. It was the third Soviet human spaceflight programme after the Vostok and Voskhod programmes. (Wikipedia)
Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-07T01:00:56.820087+00:00.