The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station. During the mission, two cosmonauts performed a ...

The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station. During the mission, two cosmonauts performed a ...

Soyuz lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at about 10:31 Moscow Time (07:31 UTC), beginning a multi-hour mission to deliver the Tundra No.4 satellite into an elliptical Molniya orbit.

"A Feat on the Stellar Path" The docking of Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 in January 1969 was the first time two manned spacecraft were linked together in orbit. It was a much-needed first for the Soviet ...

Soyuz-FG – getting ready for retirement ... used on the first human space flight in 1961, the crew performed a 4 orbit, 6.5 hour rendezvous and automated docking with the international outpost.

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, December 23. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the high-resolution Resurs-P Earth remote sensing satellite No. 5 has been ...

[Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of spacecraft and there are a lot of interesting bits to the device. After all, it has been into space.

The Soyuz-2.1b launch lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region in Russia's north, RIA said, without elaborating. "The Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1b ...

Russia launched the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the country ... The spacecraft should be orbited within the next 4.5 hours or so. Russia launched its first weather satellite in February 2021.