Soyuz 10
Soyuz 10 was launched on 22 April 1971 as the world's first mission to the world's first space station, the Soviet Salyut 1. The docking was not successful and the crew, Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Nikolai Rukavishnikov, returned to Earth without having entered the station. Following difficulties in docking pairs of Soyuz capsules, this would be the first of numerous docking failures in the Soviet space station program.
- Program
- Soyuz programme
- Launch
- Apr 22, 1971
- Return
- Apr 24, 1971
- Duration
- 2 days
- Outcome
- Success
Crew
- 🇸🇺 Nikolay Rukavishnikov —
- 🇷🇺 Vladimir Shatalov —
- 🇸🇺 Aleksei Yeliseyev —
- 🇸🇺 Valeri Kubasov — · backup
- 🇷🇺 Alexey Leonov — · backup