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International Flight No. 52Soyuz 17USSR |
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| No. | Surname | Given names | Position | Flight No. | Duration | Orbits | |
| 1 | Gubarev | Aleksei Aleksandrovich | Commander | 1 | 29d 13h 19m | 466 | |
| 2 | Grechko | Georgi Mikhailovich | Flight Engineer | 1 | 29d 13h 19m | 466 |
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Launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; landing
110 km northeast of Tselinograd. Following a one day solo flight the Soyuz
docked with the space station
Salyut 4 on
12.01.1975, which had been launched 3 days earlier. Transfer into space station and 29 days stay time there. Several astronomical experiments were performed. The crew discovered that the main mirror of the solar telescope had been ruined by direct exposure to sunlight when the pointing system failed. They resurfaced the mirror and worked out a way of pointing the telescope using a stethoscope, stopwatch, and the noises the moving mirror made in its casing. |
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