2-8 December 1974: Soyuz 16 lifted off from the Kazakh S.S.R.'s Baikonur Cosmodrome, with CDR Anatoly Filipchenko & F.E. Nikolai Rukavishnikov aboard a Soyuz 7K-TM capsule atop a Soyuz-U rocket; call sign Buran ("Blizzard"); this was a test flight for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, especially of the Androgenous Peripheral Docking System; after six days, they landed in the Kazakh S.S.R.
Barenaked Ladies, "Testing 1, 2, 3" from Everything to Everyone (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
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