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The Soyuz 7K-OKS spacecraft was launched on 6 June 1971, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the central Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, and used the callsign Yantar . [13] Several months earlier, the first mission to the Salyut, Soyuz 10, had failed to successfully dock with the station. [14]
The Soyuz 1 crash site coordinates are , 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) west of Karabutak, Province of Orenburg in the Russian Federation, about 275 kilometers (171 mi; 148 nmi) east-southeast of Orenburg. In a small park on the side of the road is a memorial monument: a black column with a bust of Komarov at the top.
Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule.
His final space mission was in 1975 on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, which was the first international space mission and demonstrated the first ever docking of American and Soviet spacecraft ...
Both cosmonauts were on their second mission and had flown their first mission together, Soyuz 12, in September 1973 to test a new type of Soyuz spacecraft after the fatal accident of Soyuz 11. The launch proceeded according to plan until T+288.6 seconds at an altitude of 145 km (90 mi; 78 nmi), [5] when the second and third stages of the ...
The Apollo 10 mission in May 1969 set the stage for Apollo 11’s historic mission two months later. Stafford and Gene Cernan took the lunar lander nicknamed Snoopy within 9 miles (14 kilometers ...
The spacecraft performed normally until the second onboard tape recorder failed in July 1968. The spacecraft was put in standby condition on 10 November 1969, and became inoperable shortly thereafter. 10 March 11:30 Proton-K / Blok D: Pad 81/23, Baikonur: MOM: Kosmos 146 (L1P 2) MOM Low Earth orbit Test prototype Soyuz 7K-L1P: 18 March: Successful
The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was aborted just seconds before scheduled lift-off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday and the crew of a Russian, a Belarusian and an ...