Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 1/5 launched Soyuz 24 with cosmonauts Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov to the military Salyut 5 station, the third and final crewed visit; they reactivated the station and purged its atmosphere after toxic fumes had cut short Soyuz 21.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 50th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 7 February 1977, 16:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1977-008
- Launches in 1977
- 8th of 130
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