Soyuz 16, a crewed ASTP dress-rehearsal flown by Filipchenko and Rukavishnikov on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur; tested the androgynous docking system and reduced cabin pressure for Apollo–Soyuz.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1974, 09:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1974-096
- Launches in 1974
- 103rd of 113
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