Soyuz 22
| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission: | Soyuz 22 |
| Call sign: | Yastreb (Hawk) |
| Launch: | September 9, 1976 09:48 UTC Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | September 23, 1976 07:40 UTC 150km NW of Tselinograd |
| Duration: | 7 days 21 hrs 52 min |
| Orbits: | 127 |
Soyuz 22 was an earth-sciences mission using a modified Soyuz capsule that had served as a backup for the Apollo-Soyuz mission the previous year.
Cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Valdimir Aksyonov spent a week in orbit photographing the surface of the Earth with a specially-built camera. It was hoped that these observations would assist in identifying resources and assisting in economic planning.
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