On Dec. 10, 1977, the Soviet union launched the first crew to complete a long-duration mission to the Salyut 6 space station.
Salyut 6 was a small space station that launched without a crew three months earlier. Another cosmonaut crew was supposed to be the first to visit this space station, but they couldn't get their Soyuz spacecraft to dock, and the mission was aborted. The second cosmonaut crew blasted off two months after that little mishap, and they were able to dock with the space station the next day. The two cosmonauts, Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko, spent 96 days in orbit before safely returning to Earth.
Salyut 6 was a small space station that launched without a crew three months earlier. Another cosmonaut crew was supposed to be the first to visit this space station, but they couldn't get their Soyuz spacecraft to dock, and the mission was aborted. The second cosmonaut crew blasted off two months after that little mishap, and they were able to dock with the space station the next day. The two cosmonauts, Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Grechko, spent 96 days in orbit before safely returning to Earth.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04In 1977, the Soviet Union launched the first crew to complete a long-duration
00:08mission to the Salyut 6 space station. Salyut 6 was a small space
00:12station that launched without a crew three months earlier. Another cosmonaut crew
00:16was supposed to be the first to visit the space station, but they couldn't get their Soyuz spacecraft
00:20to dock, and the mission was aborted. The second cosmonaut crew
00:24blasted off two months after that little mishap, and they were able to dock with the space station
00:28the next day. The two cosmonauts, Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Gretschko,
00:32spent 96 days in orbit before safely returning to Earth.
00:36And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:40NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology