Launch vehicle
Soyuz
- Recorded launches
- 32
- First flight
- 1966-11-28
Historical mission record
This page records Soyuz | Soyuz 7K-T No.39 (Soyuz 18a / Soyuz 18-1) and its reported outcome: Launch Failure. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Failure
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LAUNCH SITEBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission
Soyuz 7K-T No.39, also known as Soyuz 18a or Soyuz 18-1, was intended to be the next crewed mission to the Salyut-4 space station. The mission launched on April 5, 1975, 11:04:54 UTC, but due to a failure of the Soyuz launch vehicle during ascent it was aborted. Safety system initiated separation of the spacecraft, and the crew of commander Vasili Lazarev and flight engineer Oleg Makarov experienced overloads of up to 21.3 g. The capsule landed safely at 11:26:21 UTC, followed by a successful rescue of the crew members.
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz
- Mission type
- Human Exploration
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Spacecraft
- Soyuz 7K-T No.39
- Destination
- Salyut 4
- Launch pad
- 1/5
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Programs
- Soyuz, Salyut
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Launch site & orbit
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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