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Soyuz | Soyuz 23 launched on Thu, Oct 14, 1976, 05:39 PM UTC — a Soviet Space Program mission.
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Mission profile
Flight simulation
A representative gravity-turn climb for Soyuz to Low Earth Orbit. Illustrative model — not this mission’s live telemetry.
SimulatedRepresentative Soyuz ascent profile — illustrative model, not this mission’s live telemetry.
The mission
Soyuz 23 was meant to be the second crewed flight to the Salyut 5 military space station. The mission began on October 14, 1976, 17:39:18 UTC, launching Commander Vyacheslav Zudov and Flight Engineer Valery Rozhdestvensky into orbit. They arrived at the station, but equipment malfunction did not allow docking and the mission had to be aborted Soyuz 23 returned to Earth on October 16, 1976, 17:45:53 UTC, with an unintended splashdown in partially frozen Lake Tengiz. The capsule sunk, and due to fog and other adverse conditions it took nine hours for the rescue team to recover the capsule and crew.
Around this launch
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Good to know
Soyuz | Soyuz 23 is scheduled to lift off Thu, Oct 14, 1976, 05:39 PM UTC.
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Soyuz | Soyuz 23 is an Soviet Space Program mission flying on a Soyuz.
It lifts off from 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan.