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Fact Sheet
Viking 2 on the surface of Mars
Orbital Launches
First	6 January
Last	28 December
Total	131
Catalogued	128
National Firsts
Satellite	Indonesia
Rockets
Maiden Flights	Thor DSV-2U
Retirements	Voskhod Scout B-1 Soyuz Soyuz-M Thor-Burner
Manned flights
Orbital	3
Total travellers	6
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Launches

Date/Time (UTC)	Rocket		Launch site		LSP
	Payload	Operator	Orbit	Function	Decay (UTC)	Outcome
	Remarks
22 June 18:04:00	Proton-K		Baikonur Site 81/23
	Salyut 5 (Almaz OPS-3)		Low Earth	Space station	8 August 1977	Successful
	Visited by three crews, one of which failed to dock
6 July 12:08:45	Soyuz		Baikonur Site 1/5
	Soyuz 21		Low Earth (Salyut 5)	Salyut expedition	24 August 18:32:17	Partial mission failure
	Manned flight with two cosmonauts, final flight of Soyuz 11A511, returned early due to crew illness
15 September 09:48:30	Soyuz-U		Baikonur Site 1/5
	Soyuz 22		Low Earth	Salyut expedition	23 September 07:40:47	Successful
	Manned flight with two cosmonauts
14 October 17:39:18	Soyuz-U		Baikonur Site 1/5
	Soyuz 23		Low Earth (Intended: Salyut 5)	Salyut expedition	16 October 17:45:53	Spacecraft failure
	Manned flight with two cosmonauts, failed to dock with Salyut 5

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References

Kyle, Ed. "Space Launch Repot". http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/.
Wade, Mark. "Encyclopedia Astronautica". http://www.astronautix.com.
Krebs, Gunter. "Chronology of Space Launches". Gunter's Space Page. http://space.skyrocket.de/index_frame.htm?http://space.skyrocket.de/chrono.htm.
"Space Information Center". JAXA. http://spaceinfo.jaxa.jp.
McDowell, Jonathan. "Jonathan's Space Report". Jonathan's Space Page. http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
"Mission Set Database". NASA GSFC. http://msdb.gsfc.nasa.gov/launches.php.
"NASASpaceFlight.com". http://www.nasaspaceflight.com.
"Launch Logs". Orbital Report News Agency. http://www.orbireport.com/Log.html.
"Space Calendar". NASA JPL. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/.
"Southwest Space Archive". http://www.spacearchive.info/index.htm.
"Launch Forecast". SPACE.com. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/launch_schedule.html.
"Spaceflight Now". http://www.spaceflightnow.com.
Pietrobon, Steven. "Steven Pietrobon's Space Archive". http://www.sworld.com.au/steven/space/.
"U.S. Space Objects Registry". http://www.usspaceobjectsregistry.state.gov/.
"Хроника освоения космоса" (in Russian). http://www.cosmoworld.ru/spaceencyclopedia/chrono/index.shtml.

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Footnotes

Timeline of spaceflight

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Preceded by 1975	Timeline of spaceflight 1976	Succeeded by 1977

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