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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.
11 May 2002 [3] Successful Ceased operations on 12 January 1972 6 June 04:55:09 [1] Soyuz Baikonur 1/5 Soyuz 11: Low Earth (Salyut 1) Crewed: 29 June 23:16:52 [16] Spacecraft failure Crewed flight with three cosmonauts. First mission to occupy a space station, and only mission to occupy Salyut 1. Crew killed by depressurisation of spacecraft ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev (Russian: Виктор Иванович Пацаев; 19 June 1933 – 30 June 1971) [1] was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and was part of the third space crew to die during a space flight.
A 9-1-1 crew member died in a car crash early Saturday morning after working a 14-hour overnight shift.According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rico Priem, a grip on the series, was involved in the ...
After a normal re-entry, the Soyuz 11 capsule was opened and the corpses of the three crew members were found inside. [4] It was discovered that a valve had opened just before leaving orbit that had allowed the capsule's atmosphere to vent away into space , causing Volkov and his two flight companions to suffer fatal hypoxia as their cabin ...