"Soyuz-4”
Date of launch: January 14, 1969.
Launch site: Baykonur Cosmodrome (USSR).
Launch vehicle: the "Soyuz” rocket-carrier.
Launch crew:
Commander – Vladimir SHATALOV (USSR).
Brief Summary:
January 16, 1969: "Soyuz-4” and "Soyuz-5” docked.
The first world docking of two manned space vehicles.
Cosmonauts Aleksey Eliseev and Evgeniy Khrunov left the "Soyuz-5” spacecraft and via outer space went to the "Soyuz-4” spacecraft.
Landing crew:
Commander – Vladimir SHATALOV (USSR).
Flight-engineer - Aleksey ELISEEV (USSR).
Engineer-researcher - Evgeniy KHRUNOV (USSR).
Date of landing: January 17, 1969.
Place of landing: 40 kilometers to North-West from the city of Karaganda, USSR. |
