Soyuz 14
Soyuz 14
| Mission Statistics |
| Mission Name: | Soyuz 14 |
| Call Sign: | Беркут (Berkut - "Golden Eagle") |
| Number of Crew Members: | 2 |
| Launch: | July 3, 1974
18:51 UTC
Baikonur |
| Landing: | July 19, 1974
12:21 UTC
140km SE of Dzkezkazgan |
| Duration: | 15 days, 17 hours, 30 minutes |
| Number of Orbits: | 255 |
Soyuz 14 carried cosmonauts Yuri Artyukhin and Pavel Popovich to the
Salyut 3 space station. The mission was part of the Soviet Union's Almaz programme
to evaluate military applications of human spaceflight. At the time, however, the
military nature of this mission and the station itself were not acknowledged by
Soviet authorities.
During their two-week stay on the station, the cosmonauts undertook military
reconnaisance tasks and various biomedical experiments. All mission objectives were
reportedly met.
Crew
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 6800 kg
- Perigee: 195 km
- Apogee: 217 km
- Inclination: 51.6°
- Period: 88.6 minutes
Referenced By
List of crewed space missions chronologically | List of human spaceflights, 1961-1986 | List of human spaceflights by program | List of human spaceflights chronologically | List of manned space missions chronologically | Pavel Popovich | Salyut | Salyut 3 | Soyuz 13 | Soyuz 15 | Soyuz program | Soyuz programme | Yuri Artyuhin | Yuri Artyukhin
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