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Upon impact, the spacecraft sank into the soft snow but continued forward, rolling down the slope and gaining speed. As it neared a five hundred-foot cliff, the cosmonauts felt their hearts pound and adrenaline surge.
Aborted Flight of Soyuz 18a-Credit RKK Energia
Cmd of Soyuz 18 Pyotr Klimuk
Flight Eng for Soyuz 18 Vitaly Sevastyanov
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The crew of Soyuz 17 embarked on a historic 29-day mission, surpassing the previous Soviet mission-duration record of 23 days set by the Soyuz 11 crew aboard Salyut 1 in 1971.
Soyuz 17 on Pad. Credit Space Facts
Flight Eng. Georgy Grechko
Cmd. Aleksei Gubarev
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The original Soyuz 9 mission was planned to fly two Soyuz spacecraft in the August to September 1970 time frame for a rendezvous and docking; however, at the end of December 1969 the communist party bosses ordered that the mission be changed to a single spacecraft on a 20 day long duration flight to be launched in April 1970 to coincide with Lenin’s birthday.
