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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission
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.
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz
- Mission type
- Human Exploration
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Spacecraft
- Soyuz 9
- Destination
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- 31/6
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Programs
- Soyuz
The people behind the mission
Meet the crew
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Launch crew
Soyuz 9
Landing crew (2)Soyuz 9
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Soyuz
- Recorded launches
- 32
- First flight
- 1966-11-28
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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