Manifest / 01
This mission is complete.
Mission Brief
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.
Mission Timeline
14 / 14100%Ground vector
Launch site
31/6
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Latitude
- 45.996°N
- Longitude
- 63.564°E
Range Weather
Launch commit criteria
Tracking no weather issues at this time.
- Primary concern
- No weather issues
- Rule count
- 0
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
07:30 AM UTC - 07:30 AM UTC
Schedule History
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.
