14-16 October 1976: Soyuz 23 lifted off from Baikonur, carrying CDR Vyacheslav Zudov & F.E. Valery Rozhdestvensky aboard a Soyuz 7K-T capsule atop a Soyuz rocket; call sign Radon; the duo tried but failed to dock with the Salyut 5 space station; after 32 orbits, Soyuz 23 splashed down on a frozen Lake Tengiz, broke through the ice, & sank; after nine hours underwater, the duo were recovered.
Bombskare, "Sink or Swim" from A Million Ways to Die (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
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