Soviet-era cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, whose failed docking with a Russian space station ended with the first and only emergency splashdown in a Soyuz spacecraft, has died at the age of 82. Zudov's ...
On January 16, 1969, two crewed spacecraft docked in orbit for the first time. When the Soviet Union launched the Soyuz 4 spacecraft, only one cosmonaut was on board. But it returned with a crew of ...
On this date, Jan. 15, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5. The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station.
Yevgeny Khrunov, born September 10, 1933, was selected as one of the first Soviet cosmonauts in February 1960. He participated in the Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5 mission in January 1969, which involved the first ...
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