Soyuz 18a (Russian: Союз 18a, Union 18a) (also called Soyuz 18-1 and the April 5 Anomaly) was a manned Soyuz spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union in 1975, intended to dock with the orbiting Salyut 4 space station, but which failed to achieve orbit due to a serious malfunction during launch. The crew consisted of commander Vasili Lazarev, an Air Force major, and flight engineer Oleg Makarov, a civilian.
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