The crew of Georgi Shonin and Valeri Kubasov were meant to take high-quality movie photography of the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking, but the rendezvous systems on all three spacecraft failed.
V úmysle posádky Georgija Šonina a Valerija Kubasova bolo zaobstarať vysokokvalitné filmové snímky pripojených lodí Sojuz 7 a Sojuz 8, ale stretávacie systémy na všetkých troch lodiach zlyhali.