launched fromRussia

Soyuz 23

Name: Soyuz 23
Start: 1976-10-14T17:39:00Z
Location: Baikonur

Success

OCT 14197617:39:00 UTC

Manned orbital flight, 2 cosmonauts.

Failed to dock with Salyut 5.

Manned orbital flight, 2 cosmonauts.

Failed to dock with Salyut 5.

LIFTOFF

OCT 14 1976

17:39:00 UTC

Success

launched from Pad 1/5 Baikonur

aboard Soyuz U into LEO

Payload

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

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.