Spacecraft
Soyuz 7K-T/A9 Soyuz 23
Crew
Ascending
- 01 Vyacheslav Zudov from Russia
- 02 Valery Rozhdestvensky from Russia
Descending
- 01 Vyacheslav Zudov from Russia
- 02 Valery Rozhdestvensky from Russia
Docking
attempted to dock with Salyut 5
returned to Earth Oct 16, 1976 17:45 UTC
Docking failed — an Igla rendezvous fault (a false lateral-velocity reading) forced the approach to be abandoned, with no fuel left for a manual attempt.