Notable Events	Space Programs	Years
First space station Final lunar landing First American space station First international mission	Apollo Soyuz Salyut Skylab	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974	1975 1976 1977 1978 1979

Program	Launch Date	Crew	Notable Events
Apollo 13	April 11, 1970	Lovell Swigert Haise	Explosion in service module caused crew to abort mission and use the LM as a lifeboat; crew returned safely
Soyuz 9	June 1, 1970	Nikolayev Sevastyanov	Endurance record of almost 18 days in space
Apollo 14	January 31, 1971	Shepard Roosa Mitchell	Third lunar landing; Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon
Soyuz 10	April 22, 1971	Shatalov Yeliseyev Rukavishnikov	Docked with Salyut space station but didn't board
Soyuz 11	June 6, 1971	Dobrovolsky Volkov Patsayev	Crew spent 22 days on Salyut; they died during reentry
Apollo 15	July 26, 1971	Scott Worden Irwin	First use of lunar rover
Apollo 16	April 16, 1972	Young Mattingly Duke	Highest elevation of a landing site at 25, 688 ft
Apollo 17	December 7, 1972	Cernan Evans Schmitt	Final lunar mission; spent almost 75 hours on lunar surface
Skylab 2	May 25, 1973	Conrad Kerwin Weitz	Docked with Skylab space station for 28 days
Skylab 3	July 28, 1973	Bean Garriott Lousma	Docked for over 59 days; conducted student experiments
Soyuz 12	September 27, 1973	Lazarev Makarov	Testing of improved Soyuz
Skylab 4	November 16, 1973	Carr Gibson Pogue	Last Skylab mission; crew set US space record of 84 days
Soyuz 13	December 18, 1973	Klimuk Lebedev	Conducted various experiments
Soyuz 14	July 3, 1974	Popovich Artyukhin	Docked with Salyut 3 and boarded space station
Soyuz 15	August 26, 1974	Sarafanov Demin	Rendezvoused with Salyut 3 but didn't dock
Soyuz 16	December 2, 1974	Filipchenko Rukavishnikov	Testing for Apollo-Soyuz project
Soyuz 17	January 10, 1975	Gubarev Grechko	Docked with Salyut 4 and boarded station
Soyuz 18	May 24, 1975	Klimuk Sevastyanov	Docked with Salyut 4 and boarded station
Soyuz 19	July 15, 1975	Leonov Kubasov	Apollo-Soyuz Test Project: first US-USSR joint mission; Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 docked and the crews shared meals
Apollo 18		Stafford Slayton Brand
Soyuz 21	July 6, 1976	Voynov Zholobov	Docked with Salyut 5 and boarded station
Soyuz 22	September 15, 1976	Bykovsky Aksenov	Conducted earth resources study
Soyuz 23	October 14, 1976	Zudov Rozhdestvensky	Unsuccessful docking with Salyut 5
Soyuz 24	February 7, 1977	Gorbatko Glazkov	Docked with Salyut 5 and boarded station
Soyuz 25	October 9, 1977	Kovalenok Ryumin	Unsuccessful docking with Salyut 6
Soyuz 26	December 10, 1977	Romanenko Grechko	Spent 96 days aboard Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 27
Soyuz 27	January 10, 1978	Dzhanibekov Makarov	Spent almost 6 days on Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 26
Soyuz 28	March 2, 1978	Gubarev Remek	Docked with Salyut 6; first non-American or Russian person in space
Soyuz 29	June 15, 1978	Kovalenok Ivanchenkov	Spent 139 days on Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 31
Soyuz 30	June 27, 1978	Klimuk Hermaszewski	Docked with Salyut 6 and stayed for 7 days
Soyuz 31	August 26, 1978	Bykovsky Jaehn	Crew spent almost 8 days on Salyut 6; returned in Soyuz 29
Soyuz 32	February 25, 1979	Lyakhov Ryumin	Spent 175 days on Salyut 6; returned on Soyuz 34
Soyuz 33	April 10, 1979	Rukavishnikov Ivanov	Unsuccessful docking with Salyut 6