Salyut 5<!--These tags are used to refine the excerpt at Salyut programme.--><noinclude> ( meaning Salute 5)</noinclude>, also known as OPS-3, was <noinclude>a Soviet space station. Launched</noinclude><includeonly>launched</includeonly> in 1976<noinclude> as part of the Salyut programme, it</noinclude><includeonly>. It</includeonly> was the third and last Almaz space station to be launched for the Soviet military. Two Soyuz missions visited the station, each crewed by two cosmonauts. A third Soyuz mission attempted to visit the station, but failed to dock, whilst a fourth mission was planned but never launched.
Launch
Salyut 5 was launched at 18:04:00 UTC on 22 June 1976. The launch took place from Site 81/23 the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and used a three-stage Proton-K carrier rocket with the serial number 290–02.
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