Soyuz 15

Dunay

USSR

Launch, orbit and landing data

Launch date:	26.08.1974
Launch time:	19:58 UTC
Launch site:	Baikonur
Launch pad:	1
Altitude:	193,4 - 235,2 km
Inclination:	51,62°
Landing date:	28.08.1974
Landing time:	20:10 UTC
Landing site:	48 km SW of Tselinograd

Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position	Flight No.	Duration	Orbits
1	Sarafanov	Gennadi Vasiliyevich	Commander	1	2d 00h 12m	32
2	Dyomin	Lev Stepanovich	Flight Engineer	1	2d 00h 12m	32

Crew seating arrangement

Launch
1	Sarafanov
2	Dyomin

Landing
1	Sarafanov
2	Dyomin

Animations: Soyuz


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1st Double Crew

No.	Surname	Given names	Position
1	Volynov	Boris Valentinovich	Commander
2	Zholobov	Vitali Mikhailovich	Flight Engineer

Flight

Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing 48 km southwest of Tselinograd.

The spacecraft arrived at the Salyut 3 space station successfully, but the cosmonauts were unable to dock, because of a fault in the automated docking-system (Igla). The Soyuz spacecraft had no reserves or backup systems for repeated manual docking attempts, so the mission had to be abandoned. Later on the state commission discovered that the Igla docking system of the Soyuz needed serious modification.