Soyuz 17

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

21:43:37

Friday January 10, 1975

Mission Details

Launch Notes

First crewed flight to the Salyut 4 station. The cosmonauts named the spacecraft Зенит ("Zenith").

Soyuz 17

Wiki

Soyuz 17 was the first of two long-duration missions to the Soviet Union's Salyut 4 space station in 1975. The flight set a Soviet mission-duration record of 29 days, surpassing the 23-day record set by the ill-fated Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1 in 1971. Salyut 4 was launched with cosmonauts Georgi Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev as its first crew, was launched 16 days later on 10 January 1975. Gubarev manually docked Soyuz 17 to the station on 12 January, and upon entering the new station he and Grechko found a note from its builders which said, "Wipe your feet!" The cosmonauts began powering down the station on 7 February and they returned to Earth in the Soyuz capsule two days later. They safely landed near Tselinograd in a snowstorm with winds of 72 km/h and wore gravity suits to ease the effects of re-adaptation. This is Soyuz's 30th flight, and 16th crewed flight. The Soyuz is a Soviet crewed spaceship, developed to made manned lunar missions. This version called 7K will fly 4 times on the giant launcher N1, and several tens of times on Proton to fly over the Moon, which will be successful during the mission Zond 4. Soyuz will become the first spacecraft to transport living beings to the Moon during the flight of Zond 5, with two turtles. Subsequently, it is adapted to low orbit and will fly on the Soyuz launcher to serve the Salyut and Mir stations and the ISS.

Low Earth Orbit

1 Payload

6,800 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Soyuz

Active 1966 to 1976

OKB-1 logo

Manufacturer

OKB-1

Rocket

Height: 48.47m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 6,640 kg

GTO: 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,456 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 3m

Height: 12.8m

Stages

3

Strap-ons

4

Launch Site

Site 1/5

Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Fastest Turnaround

23 hr 32 min

Stats

Soyuz


28th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1975

OKB-1


897th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1975

1975


1st

Orbital launch attempt