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Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, lit. 'Union 11') was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station , Salyut 1 . [ a ] [ 5 ] The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky , Vladislav Volkov , and Viktor Patsayev , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971, and departed on 29 June 1971.
Georgy Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky (Russian: Георгий Тимофеевич Добровольский; 1 June 1928 – 30 June 1971) [1] was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded the three-man crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft. They became the world's first space station crew aboard Salyut 1, but died of asphyxiation because of an accidentally ...
The Soyuz 11 crew died of asphyxia caused by a valve failure just before reentry, making them the only humans to have died above the Kármán line. Following the deaths, the mission of Salyut 1 was terminated, and the station reentered Earth's atmosphere, burning up on October 11, 1971.
The first crew launched later in the Soyuz 10 mission, but they ran into troubles while docking and were unable to enter the station; the Soyuz 10 mission was aborted and the crew returned safely to Earth. A replacement crew launched on Soyuz 11 and remained on board for 23 days. This was the first time in the history of spaceflight that a ...
Soyuz 10: 25 April 1971 Soyuz 10: Unsuccessful attempt to board Salyut 1 space station. 44 Georgy Dobrovolsky Viktor Patsayev Vladislav Volkov (2) 6 June 1971 Soyuz 11: Salyut 1: 29 June 1971 Soyuz 11: Successful boarding of Salyut 1 (first crewed space station). All crew died on re-entry due to air leak. 45 David R. Scott (3) Alfred M. Worden ...
Three crew members are safe after their ... Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus were expected to lift off aboard a Roscosmos Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 9:21 a ...
In 1971, he was the backup Flight Engineer for the ill-fated Soyuz 11 Mission, which ended in disaster when the craft depressurized above the Kármán line, killing the three man crew. He was president of the Soviet Chess Federation from 1977 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1989.
In first class, the purser – known in the documentary only as Deborah – got into a minor dispute about food with four passengers: a "well-built" man in a tan suit, a young boy around 6 or 7 ...