Progress 6, an uncrewed cargo freighter launched on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 to resupply the Salyut 6 space station and its resident EO-3 crew with propellant, food, and equipment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 8.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 146th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 13 May 1979, 04:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1979-039
- Launches in 1979
- 40th of 110
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