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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.
When Soyuz 11 was 6 to 7 kilometres (3.7 to 4.3 mi; 3.2 to 3.8 nmi) from Salyut, automatic devices took over, and in 24 minutes closed the gap between the two ships to 9 metres (30 ft) and reduced the relative speed difference to 0.2 metres per second (0.66 ft/s). Control of the ships went from automatic back to manual at 100 metres (330 ft).
Mission numbers are of the form: "Soyuz MS-##". Within each given era, a mission number generally reflects the mission's chronological launch order, e.g. Soyuz TMA-12M was the twelfth mission of the TMA-M era, immediately preceded by Soyuz TMA-11M and immediately followed by Soyuz TMA-13M. Although there are exceptions to this (detailed below ...
The last time NASA astronauts returned from space to water was on July 24, 1975, in the Pacific, the scene of most splashdowns, to end a joint U.S.-Soviet mission known as Apollo-Soyuz.
It resumed operations in January 1969, launching the Soyuz 4 mission and supporting numerous missions throughout the 1970s. Following the explosion of Soyuz 7K-ST No.16L at Site 1 in 1983, Site 31 became critical for crewed missions, launching Soyuz T-10, T-11, and T-12 in 1984. Even after the repairs were completed, Site 31 remained an ...
The mission was launched on 15 July 1975, with the Soyuz returning on 21 July and Apollo on 24 July. On 5 April, Soyuz 7K-T 39 aborted after the second and third stages failed to separate, with the crew pulling over 21 g on a ballistic reentry. On 19 April, the first Indian satellite, Aryabhatta, was launched on a Soviet Kosmos-3M.
Russia's Soyuz rocket blasted off from its Plesetsk launch site some 500 miles (805 km) north of Moscow on May 16, deploying in low-Earth orbit at least nine satellites including COSMOS 2576, a ...