SOYUZ 10                        MANNED FLIGHT                                     USSR

First docking with the Salyut 1 space station, but  no crew ingress because of technical problems with the Soyuz hatch. First night landing in manned space flight history.

Vladimir A.Shatalov

Commander

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LAUNCH :

23.54 GMT

Baikonour

Kazakhstan / USSR

LC-1

Apr.22 / 1971

10.13.05

22:11:41

SPACECRAFT :

Soyuz 7KT-OK

LAUNCH VEHICLE :

Soyuz 11A511

LANDING :

23.40 GMT

USSR

120 km NW of Karaganda

Apr. 24 / 1971

designed by :     Michael May         copyright  2005

MANNEDSPACEFLIGHT    CHRONOLOGY

FLIGHT DATA :

Inclination

51.60°

Altitude

209,6 /248,4 km

Duration

1d23h45m

Orbits

32

Aleksei S.Yeliseyev

Flight Engineer

Soyuz 10 crew  in the command module

Flight no.  039

Docking to :

SALYUT 1

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT    1960´s   1970´s   

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Nikolai N.

Rukavishnikov

Research cosmonaut