Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 1/5 launched Soyuz 26 with cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko to Salyut 6, opening the station’s first long-duration residency after the failed Soyuz 25 docking attempt.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 83rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 1977, 01:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1977-113
- Launches in 1977
- 119th of 130
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