Soyuz 18A
Soyuz 18A was intended to carry Vasili Lazarev and Oleg Makarov to Salyut 4. A launch-vehicle staging failure about 289 seconds after liftoff triggered an automatic abort and a high-acceleration ballistic descent. The crew survived an emergency landing in the snow-covered Altai Mountains.
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- Soyuz 18-1April 5 Anomaly
- Name
- Soyuz 18A
- Status
- failed
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- Soyuz 18A was intended to carry Vasili Lazarev and Oleg Makarov to Salyut 4. A launch-vehicle staging failure about 289 seconds after liftoff triggered an automatic abort and a high-acceleration ballistic descent. The crew survived an emergency landing in the snow-covered Altai Mountains.
- End Date
- 1975-04-05
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- Outcome
- Failure — launch-vehicle staging failure triggered an automatic abort; both cosmonauts survived the high-G ballistic return.
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- Start Date
- 1975-04-05
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- July 13, 2026 at 13:27:49 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 29, 2026 at 08:53:54 UTC
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