Soyuz 23 with cosmonauts Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky, the second crewed flight to military Salyut 5. Soyuz 11A511 from Baikonur Site 1/5 reached orbit, but an Igla docking failure aborted the mission; the crew later made a night splashdown in Lake Tengiz.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 32 Soyuz 11A511 flights
- Date and time
- 14 October 1976, 17:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 11A511
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1976-100
- Launches in 1976
- 102nd of 131
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