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The original Voskhod had been designed to carry two cosmonauts, but Soviet politicians pushed the Soviet space program into squeezing three cosmonauts into Voskhod 1. The only other space flight in the short Voskhod program, Voskhod 2, carried two suited cosmonauts – of necessity, because it was the flight on which Alexei Leonov made the ...
In 1965, Komarov worked with Gagarin in supervising preparations for the flight of Voskhod 2, which carried out the first attempt of an extravehicular activity in outer space. These preparations included fitting of space suits on the cosmonauts and briefings for the spaceflight.
As of January 2025, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts in five separate incidents. [2] Three of the flights had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so. In each of these accidents, the entire crew was killed.
The Voskhod (Russian: Восход, "Sunrise") was a spacecraft built by the Soviet Union's space program for human spaceflight as part of the Voskhod programme. It was a development of and a follow-on to the Vostok spacecraft. Voskhod 1 was used for a three-man flight whereas Voskhod 2 had a crew of two.
This is a detailed list of human spaceflights from 1961 to 1970, spanning the Soviet Vostok and Voskhod programs, the start of the Soviet Soyuz program, the American Mercury and Gemini programs, and the first lunar landings of the American Apollo program.
Crewed orbital flight: 22 June 1973: Successful Crewed flight with 3 astronauts, first crewed flight to Skylab: 25 May 13:30 Voskhod (R-7 11A57) Plesetsk Kosmos 561 (Zenit 2M) MOM Low Earth Reconnaissance: 6 June 1973: Successful Nauka MOM Low Earth Gamma ray telescope: 20 June 1973: Successful 29 May 10:16 Vostok-2M (R-7 8A92M) Plesetsk Meteor ...
The female astronaut and MIT engineer joined Jeff Bezos’s aerospace company Blue Origin on their ninth human rocket mission to fly past the Kármán line — a boundary that separates Earth’s ...
On July 6, 1976 Volynov and Flight Engineer Vitaliy Zholobov were launched on board Soyuz 21 to spend between 54 and 66 days aboard the space station Salyut 5. Following a deterioration in the health of Zholobov, who was making his first spaceflight, the decision was made to return the crew at the earliest available opportunity and they boarded ...