Salyut 6 (DOS-5), the first Soviet space station with dual docking ports, enabling simultaneous crew and Progress resupply. Proton-K from Baikonur Site 81/24 lofted the ~20 t station into LEO; it hosted long-duration and international crews through 1982.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 19.8 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 29 September 1977, 06:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1977-097
- Launches in 1977
- 101st of 130
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