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Voskhod 1 was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, the first flight without the use of spacesuits, and the first to carry either an engineer or a physician into outer space. It also set a crewed spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi).
Voskhod 1 was used for a three-man flight whereas Voskhod 2 had a crew of two. They consisted of a spherical descent module (diameter 2.3 metres (7.5 ft)), which housed the cosmonauts , and instruments, and a conical equipment module (mass 2.27 tonnes or 5,000 pounds, 2.25 m (7.4 ft) long, 2.43 m (8.0 ft) wide), which contained propellant and ...
Voskhod 1: 3KV-3: 12 October 1964: 13 October 1964: Vladimir Komarov Konstantin Feoktistov Boris Yegorov: Success: First multiman spacecraft. Kosmos 57: 3KD-1: 22 February 1965: 6 April 1965 — Failure: Voskhod 2: 3KD-4: 18 March 1965: 19 March 1965: Pavel Belyayev Alexey Leonov: Success: First spacewalk. Kosmos 110: 3KV-5: 22 February 1966: ...
Voskhod 1 and 2 spacecraft. The Voskhod programme (Russian: Восход, IPA:, Ascent or Dawn) was the second Soviet human spaceflight project. Two one-day crewed missions were flown using the Voskhod spacecraft and rocket, one in 1964 and one in 1965, and two dogs flew on a 22-day mission in 1966.
This is a list of the human spaceflight missions conducted by the Soviet space program.These missions belong to the Vostok, Voskhod, and Soyuz space programs.. The first patch from the Soviet Space Program was worn by Valentina Tereshkova, [1] then the same patch for the Voskhod 2, Soyuz 4/5 and Soyuz 11, [2] Soyuz 3 had an official insignia that wasn't worn during the flight, [3] and then in ...
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Dawn 1: Andrei Gorolev, Capt. Cosmonauts on the Earth (Космонавты живут на Земле) (1968), Russian-language novel Voskhod 3 Aurora 1 Dawn 1 Contemporary Semi-fictional work follows the lives and missions of nine cosmonauts recruited to fly the space missions which follow Vostok and Voskhod in period 1965–67.
Amongst the exhibits are the recovered capsule from the Vostok 1 mission with which Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the Vostok 6 capsule in which Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space, the Voskhod 2 capsule from which the first spacewalk was performed by Alexei Leonov, the Zond 5 capsule which carried two tortoises ...