Soyuz 10

Soyuz 10
Mission typeDock with Salyut 1
OperatorSoviet space program
COSPAR ID1971-034A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.5172
Mission duration1 day, 23 hours and 46 minutes
Orbits completed32
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz 7K-T No. 31[1]
Spacecraft typeSoyuz 7K-OKS
ManufacturerOKB-1
Launch mass6,525 kg (14,385 lb)[2]
Landing mass1,200 kg (2,600 lb)
Crew
Crew size3
MembersVladimir Shatalov
Aleksei Yeliseyev
Nikolai Rukavishnikov
CallsignГранит (Granit - "Granite") [3]
Start of mission
Launch date22 April 1971, 23:54:06 GMT
RocketSoyuz 11A511
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5[4]
End of mission
Landing date24 April 1971, 23:40:00 GMT
Landing site120 km northeast of Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit[5]
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Perigee altitude208 km (129 mi)
Apogee altitude246 km (153 mi)
Inclination51.6°
Period89.0 minutes

Soyuz 10 mission patch
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Soyuz 10 (Russian: 'Союз 10', Union 10) was launched on 22 April 1971 as the world's first mission to the world's first space station, the Soviet Salyut 1. The docking was not successful and the crew, Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Nikolai Rukavishnikov, returned to Earth without having entered the station. Following difficulties in docking pairs of Soyuz capsules, this would be the first of numerous docking failures in the Soviet space station program.[6]

  1. ^ The USSR launches first space station crew www.russianspaceweb.com, accessed 27 December 2022
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Display was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Mir Hardware Heritage - 1.7.3 (wikisource)
  4. ^ "Baikonur LC1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 4 March 2009.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Trajectory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Mission report www.spacefacts.de