This article is about a 1969 spaceflight. For the proposed carrier rocket, see Soyuz-5 (rocket). For the mission identified by NASA as ISS Soyuz 5, see Soyuz TMA-1.
Soyuz 5
Model of Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 after performing the first docking of two crewed spacecraft on 16 January 1969.
Mission type
Test flight
Operator
Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
COSPAR ID
1969-005A
SATCAT no.
03656
Mission duration
3 days 54 minutes 15 seconds
Orbits completed
49
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft
Soyuz 7K-OK No.13[1]
Spacecraft type
Soyuz 7K-OK (passive)
Manufacturer
Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
Launch mass
6585 kg [2]
Landing mass
2800 kg
Dimensions
7.13 m long 2.72 m wide
Crew
Crew size
3 up 1 down
Members
Boris Volynov
Launching
Aleksei Yeliseyev Yevgeny Khrunov
Callsign
Байкал (Baikal - "Lake Baikal")
Start of mission
Launch date
15 January 1969, 07:04:57 GMT
Rocket
Soyuz
Launch site
Baikonur, Site 1/5[3]
Contractor
Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
End of mission
Landing date
18 January 1969, 07:59:12 GMT
Landing site
Ural Mountains at 200 km of the southeast of Kostanay, near Orenburg, Kazakhstan
Orbital parameters
Reference system
Geocentric orbit[4]
Regime
Low Earth orbit
Perigee altitude
210.0 km
Apogee altitude
233.0 km
Inclination
51.69°
Period
88.87 minutes
Docking with Soyuz 4
Docking date
16 January 1969, 08:20 GMT
Undocking date
16 January 1969, 12:55 GMT
Time docked
4 hours 35 minutes
Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov
Soyuz programme
← Soyuz 4
Soyuz 6 →
Soyuz 5 (Russian: Союз 5, Union 5) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first docking of two crewed spacecraft of any nation, and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another of any nation, the only time a transfer was accomplished with a space walk – two months before the United States Apollo 9 mission performed the first internal crew transfer.
The mission, flown by cosmonauts Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Yevgeny Khrunov, was also memorable for its dramatic re-entry. The craft's service module did not separate, so it entered the atmosphere nose-first, leaving Volynov hanging by his restraining straps. As the craft aerobraked, the atmosphere burned through the service module, allowing the remaining descent module to right itself before the escape hatch was burned through. During the descent, the parachute lines tangled and the landing rockets failed, resulting in a hard landing that broke Volynov's teeth.
^"Soyuz-4 and -5 crews perform docking, spacewalk between ships". www.russianspaceweb.com. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
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