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Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, lit. 'Union 11') was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. [5] [6] The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev, [7] [8] [9] arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971, and departed on 29 June 1971. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule ...
Jun 29, 2021 · The ill-fated replacement crew of Soyuz 11 spent three weeks performing experiments on the world's first space station. But their return trip ended in tragedy. Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov ...
Jun 30, 2021 · Left: The original Soyuz 11 crew of Valeri N. Kubasov, left, Aleksei A. Leonov, and Pyotr I. Kolodin posing in front of the Soyuz spacecraft simulator. Middle: The Soyuz 11 crew of Georgi T. Dobrovolski, left, Viktor I. Patsayev, and Vladislav N. Volkov in the Soyuz simulator. Credit: Images courtesy of RKK Energia.
Jul 12, 1971 · July 12, 1971 12:00 AM EDT. A s the heat-scarred spacecraft settled to a soft, parachute landing on the steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan, a recovery helicopter was ready and waiting to touch down ...
Jun 29, 2021 · The would-be rescuers opened the hatch to find a scene of indescribable horror. All three cosmonauts lay dead in their seats, with blue splotches on their faces and blood trickling from their noses and ears. On June 30, 1971, humankind was forced to grapple with the first — and so far only — deaths to occur in space.
On June 30th, 1971, three soviet cosmonauts were returning from what was, at the time, the longest period any humans had spent in space. Their re-entry appea...
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Jun 30, 2021 · Soyuz 11’s three person crew were dead. Soyuz 11. The Salyut project, to launch the world’s first orbiting space station for crews to visit, live in, and conduct research on had been approved ...
