Soyuz | Soyuz 9
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June 1, 1970, 7 p.m.
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Soyuz 9 carried cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev & Vitali Sevastyanov to orbit. The mission lasted 17 days, 16 hours & 58 minutes completing 288 orbits around Earth. They broke the endurance record held by Gemini 7 for 5 years. This was the first crewed space launch that lifted off at night. As of 2016 it still holds the record for longest crewed flight by a solo spacecraft. The goal of the mission was to conduct various pysiological and biomedical experiments on themselves and invastigate possible social implications of extended duration spaceflight.
Soyuz 9 was a Soyuz spacecraft which launched on 1 June 1970 19:00 UTC. It launched two cosmonauts for science and craft testing purposes. The crew was Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov.
Soyuz Details
Date of Birth: July 8, 1935
Date of Death: April 5, 2010
Date of Birth: Sept. 5, 1929
Date of Death: July 3, 2004
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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