By Astrophilatelie Martin
On June 22, 1976, Saliout 5 was launched by a three-decker Proton rocket.
It is the third and last Almaz-type military space station, included in the Saliout program to conceal its true objective.
She received the crew of Soyouz 21 (Volynov and Zholobov) from July 7 to August 24, 1976.
Soyouz 23 (Zoudov and Rozhdestvensky) failed to moor with the station.
And she received her last Soyouz 24 crew (Gorbatko and Glazkov) from February 8 to February 25, 1977.
The Soyouz 25 mission, originally scheduled, has been cancelled.
Structurally similar to Saliout 3, the station had a mass of 19,000 kg. It came equipped with two side-mounted solar panels on the center of the station and a return module for data and research materials.
Saliout 5, length: 14.55 meters, maximum diameter: 4.15 meters. Living volume: 100 m3.
The search module was thrown out and picked up on February 26, 1977. Saliout 5 was consumed into the atmosphere on August 8, 1977, after its reserves depleted.
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