Manifest / 02
This mission is complete.
Vehicle
Soyuz
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Mission Brief
Soyuz 5 mission started with the launch on January 15, 1969, 07:04:57 UTC, carrying Commander Boris Volynov, Flight Engineer Vladislav Volkov and Research Engineer Pyotr Kolodin into orbit. Two days later mission achieved the first ever docking of two crewed spacecrafts, having Soyuz 5 docked with Soyuz 4 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 hard landing back on Earth on January 18, 1969, 07:59:12 UTC.
Mission Timeline
14 / 14100%Ground vector
Launch site
1/5
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Latitude
- 45.920°N
- Longitude
- 63.342°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
07:04 AM UTC - 07:04 AM UTC
Delay History
1Schedule updated



