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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEBaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Mission
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.
- Launch vehicle
- Soyuz
- Mission type
- Human Exploration
- Destination orbit
- Low Earth Orbit
- Spacecraft
- Soyuz 4
- Destination
- Low Earth Orbit
- Launch pad
- 31/6
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Programs
- Soyuz
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Launch crew
Soyuz 4
Landing crew (3)Soyuz 4
The vehicle
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Launch vehicle
Soyuz
- Recorded launches
- 32
- First flight
- 1966-11-28
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Launch site & orbit
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
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