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Cosmonauts Anatoli Filipchenko and Nikolai Rukavishnikov evaluated a modified Soyuz capsule and the docking equipment that would allow the dissimilar spacecraft to link up. Meanwhile, the flight gave the US and Soviet ground crews experience in working together, and satisfied US officials of the safety of the Soyuz craft. Categories: Stub | 1928 births | Astronauts ... Nikolai Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Рукавишников; September 18, 1932, Tomsk – October 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. ...

The mission went exactly to plan, with both administrations happy with the performance of the spacecraft and ground crews.

Crew

• Anatoli Filipchenko (2)
• Nikolai Rukavishnikov (2)

(1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. Categories: Stub | 1928 births | Astronauts ... Nikolai Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Рукавишников; September 18, 1932, Tomsk – October 19, 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. ...

Mission Parameters

• Mass: 6800 kg
• Perigee: 184 km
• Apogee: 291 km
• Inclination: 51.8°
• Period: 89.2 min

Soyuz 15 was a human spaceflight mission of the Soviet Union. ... The Soyuz human spaceflight programme was initiated in the early 1960s as part of the manned lunar programme that was intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. ... Crew Georgi Grechko (1) Aleksei Gubarev (1) Mission Parameters Mass: 6800 kg Perigee: 185 km Apogee: 249 km Inclination: 51. ...