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Soyuz 1
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Key facts
- Mission type
- Test flight
- Operator
- Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
- Cospar id
- 1967-037A
- Satcat number span no
- 02759
- Mission duration
- 1 day 2 hours 47 minutes 52 seconds
- Spacecraft
- Soyuz 7K-OK No.1
- Spacecraft type
- Soyuz 7K-OK
- Manufacturer
- Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
- Launch mass
- 6450 kg
- Landing mass
- 2800 kg
- Dimensions
- 10 m long (with solar panels), 2.72 m wide
- Members
- Vladimir Komarov
- Callsign
- Рубин ( Rubin – "Ruby")
- Launch date
- 23 April 1967, 00:35:00 GMT
- Rocket
- Soyuz 11A511 s/n U15000-04
- Launch site
- Baikonur , Site 1/5
- Contractor
- Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
- Landing date
- 24 April 1967, 03:22:52 GMT
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Soyuz programme
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Followed by
- Soyuz 3
- Duration
- 96472
- Orbital period
- 88.7
- Image
- The Soviet Union 1964 CPA 3110 stamp (3-men Space Flight of Komarov, Yegorov and Feoktistov. Vladimir Komarov (1927-1967), a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer, and cosmonaut).jpg
- Significant event
- landing
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- vessel
- Soyuz 7K-OK
- orbits completed
- 18
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1967-04-24
- orbital inclination
- 51.67
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1967-04-23
- space launch vehicle
- Soyuz
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- crew members
- Vladimir Komarov
- apoapsis
- 223
- periapsis
- 197
- location of landing
- Kazakhstan
- backup or reserve team or crew
- Yuri Gagarin
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome
- call sign
- Рубин (Rubí)
- Commons category
- Soyuz 1
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Encyclopedic overview
Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, lit. 'Union 1') was a crewed spaceflight of the Soviet space program. Launched into orbit on 23 April 1967 carrying cosmonaut colonel Vladimir Komarov, Soyuz 1 was the first crewed flight of the Soyuz spacecraft. The flight was plagued with technical issues, and Komarov was killed when the descent module crashed into the ground due to a parachute failure. This was the first in-flight fatality in the history of spaceflight.
The original mission plan was complex, involving a rendezvous with Soyuz 2 and an exchange of crew members before returning to Earth. However, the launch of Soyuz 2 was called off due to thunderstorms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Soyuz 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.