Soyuz | Soyuz 17

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: Soviet Space Program (Government)
• Rocket: Soyuz — Soyuz family

Mission

Soyuz 17 was the first of two long-duration missions to the Salyut-4 space station. The mission began on January 10, 1975, 21:43:37 UTC, launching commander Aleksei Gubarev and flight engineer Georgi Grechko into orbit. Spacecraft was manually docked with the station on January 12. During their stay on the station, crew performed an array of astrophysical experiments, including studying the Sun, planets and the stars in a wide electromagnetic spectrum. The mission concluded after 29 days with a safe landing back on Earth on February 9, 1975, 11:03:22 UTC.

• Type: Human Exploration
• Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

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)
• Salyut — The Salyut programme was the first space station programme, undertaken by the Soviet Union. It involved a series of four crewed scientific research space stations and two crewed military reconnaissance space stations over a period of 15 years, from 1971 to 1986. (Wikipedia)