The Explorers' Club, № MLXVII

Operation AXIOM: The Space Race—The 50th Anniversary of Soyuz 17
10 January-9 February 1975: Soyuz 17 lifted off from the Kazakh S.S.R.'s Baikonur, with CDR Aleksei Gubarev & F.E. Georgy Grechko aboard a Soyuz 7K-T capsule atop a Soyuz rocket; call sign Zenit ("Zenith"); the duo docked with & boarded the Salyut 4 space station, finding a note from its builders: "Wipe your feet;" after twenty-nine days of astrophysical research, they landed in the Kazakh S.S.R.

Commentary: Complicating the search for photographs of Soyuz 17 is that there were also missions designated Soyuz TMA-17 (2009-2010) & Soyuz MS-17 (2020-2021), flights to the International Space Station. Also, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project dominates 1975 in the photo search results.

Bonus! Space Race Song o' the Day: Soyuz 17
Lenka, "Here to Stay" from Two (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)

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