November 17 is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... Baikonur (formerly Leninsk) is a city in Kazakhstan administered by Russia. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Crew

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Mission Parameters

• Mass: 6570 kg
• Perigee: 177 km
• Apogee: 251 km
• Inclination: 51.6°
• Period: 89.1 minutes

Soyuz 20 was an unmanned spacecraft launched by the USSR. It was a long duration test of the Soyuz transport vehicle that docked with the Salyut 4 space station. It was recovered on February 16, 1976 2:24 GMT. Soyuz 20 performed comprehensive checking of improved on-board systems of the spacecraft under various flight conditions. It also carried a biological payload. Living organisms were exposed to three months in space.

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. ... 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 Boris Volynov (2) Vitali Zholobov (1) (1) number of spaceflights each crew member has completed, including this mission. ...