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Soyuz 18a

Rocket launch

by Russia

Launch time5 Apr 197511:04 UTC

failure

Orbit: LEO

Manned suborbital flight, 2 cosmonauts.

Blok A core stage failed to separate properly from the Blok I third stage. The crew used the Soyuz's propulsion system to escape as the LES was gone by this point in the launch.

Rocket Soyuz7K-T

launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Pad 1/5Kazakhstan

Payloads

NamePurposeMassComment
Soyuz 18a---

Spacecraft landing

  • Date

    5 Apr 1975

Crew at start

  • Vasili Lazarev Russia
  • Oleg Makarov Russia

Crew at landing

  • Vasili Lazarev Russia
  • Oleg Makarov Russia