Soyuz | Soyuz 4
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Jan. 14, 1969, 7:30 a.m. - Jan. 14, 1969, 7:30 a.m.
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Jan. 14, 1969, 7:30 a.m. - Jan. 14, 1969, 7:30 a.m.
Soyuz 4 mission started with the launch on January 14, 1969, 07:30:00 UTC, carrying Commander Vladimir Shatalov, Flight Engineer Aleksei Yeliseyev and Research Engineer Yevgeny Khrunov into orbit. Two days later mission achieved the first ever docking of two crewed spacecrafts, having Soyuz 4 docked with Soyuz 5 spacecraft. Since no connecting tunel had been developed yet, the two cosmonauts had to spacewalk from one vehicle to another. The mission concluded with a safe landing back on Earth on January 17, 1969, 06:50:47 UTC.
Soyuz 4 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 14 January 1969 07:30 UTC. It launched three cosmonauts for a joint mission with Soyuz 5. The crew was Vladimir Shatalov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Yevgeny Khrunov.
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The Roscosmos State Corporation for Space Activities, commonly known as Roscosmos, is the governmental body responsible for the space science program of the Russian Federation and general aerospace research. Soyuz has many launch locations the Russian sites are Baikonur, Plesetsk and Vostochny however Ariane also purchases the vehicle and launches it from French Guiana.
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