00:00 On this day in space.
00:03 In 1977, the Soviet Union launched the first crew to complete a long-duration mission to the Salyut 6 space station.
00:10 Salyut 6 was a small space station that launched without a crew three months earlier.
00:14 Another cosmonaut crew was supposed to be the first to visit the space station,
00:18 but they couldn't get their Soyuz spacecraft to dock, and the mission was aborted.
00:22 The second cosmonaut crew blasted off two months after that little mishap,
00:26 and they were able to dock with the space station the next day.
00:29 The two cosmonauts, Yuri Romanenko and Georgi Gretschko, spent 96 days in orbit before safely returning to Earth.
00:36 And that's what happened on this day in space.
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