Soyuz 23 (Russian: Союз 23, Union 23) was an October 1976, Soviet crewed space flight, the second to the Salyut 5 space station. Cosmonauts Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky arrived at the station, but an equipment malfunction did …

Oct 16, 2021 · Forty-five years ago, an unplanned splashdown forced two cosmonauts to battle hazardous weather that left their capsule bobbing in a frozen lake for nearly half a day. Soyuz 23 is pulled from the...

Soyuz MS-23 was an uncrewed Russian Soyuz spaceflight that launched from Baikonur on 24 February 2023 to the International Space Station to replace the damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft for landing that NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin launched onboard on 21 September 2022 and had a ...

Crew nearly froze to death after an emergency landing in a lake in a blizzard at -20 deg C. It took hours before the capsule could be dragged to shore. Backup crew: Glazkov, Gorbatko.Support crew: Berezovoi, Lisun. The Soyuz 23 ferry spacecraft suffered a docking system failure.

Sep 27, 2023 · At 3:54 a.m. EDT NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, undocked from the International Space Station in the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to begin the journey back to Earth.

May 22, 2024 · Soyuz MS-23 was launched unmanned to bring back the crew of Soyuz MS-22. Soyuz MS-23 delivered 429 kg of cargo to the ISS for the crew of the 68 th and 69 th Expedition.

Sep 27, 2023 · NASA astronaut Frank Rubio ended his record-breaking time in space with a parachute-assisted landing in the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft on the steppe of Kazakhstan, southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan, at 7:17 a.m. EDT (5:17 p.m. Kazakhstan time) Wednesday, Sept. 27.

Feb 24, 2023 · A replacement Russian Soyuz spacecraft, called MS-23, is bound for the International Space Station (ISS) to be the new ride home for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA ...

Soyuz 23 was a manned Soviet mission launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Cosmonauts Rozhedstvensky and Zudov on board. Its was intended to dock with the Salyut 5 space station but the mission failed due to a fault of the …

Aug 27, 2024 · Having shed two-thirds of its mass, the Soyuz reached Entry Interface - a point 400,000 feet (121.9 kilometers) above the Earth, where friction due to the thickening atmosphere began to heat its outer surfaces. With only 23 minutes left before it lands on the grassy plains of central Asia, attention in the module turned to slowing its rate of ...