Soyuz 22 crew: Valery Bykovsky, Vladimir Adsyonov
The mission objectives of Soyuz 22, launched September 15, 1976, were stated to "check and improve scientific methods and means of studying geological features of the Earth's surface in the interests of the national economies of the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic".
However, many believe that its crew, Commander Valery Bykovsky and Flight Engineer Vladimir Aksyonov, was instructed to observe NATO exercises near Norway. Their high inclination had not been used since the Voskhod program n the 1960s.
They returned to Earth September 23.
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