Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Soyuz 17 Mission Statistics Mission Name: Soyuz 17 Call Sign: Зенит (Zenit - "Zenith") Number of Crew Members: 2 Launch: January 11, 1975 21:43 UTC Baikonur Landing: February 10, 1975 11:02 UTC 110km NE of Tselinograd Duration: 29 days, 13 hours, 19 minutes Number of Orbits: 479 Soyuz 17 carried cosmonauts Georgi Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev to the Salyut 4 space station for a month-long stay. Upon entering the new station, they found a humorous note from its builders, telling them to "Wipe your feet!" Experiments carried out on board the station were mostly of an astronomical nature, with observations of the Sun, the Earth, and the planets. Crew Georgi Grechko Aleksei Gubarev Mission Parameters Mass: 6800 kg Perigee: 185 km Apogee: 249 km Inclination: 51.6° Period: 88.8 minutes Previous Mission: Soyuz 16 Soyuz programme Next Mission: Soyuz 18a This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.