Key facts
- Operator
- Soviet space program
- Cospar id
- 1964-065A
- Mission duration
- 1 day, 17 minutes, 3 seconds
- Spacecraft
- Voskhod-3KV No.3
- Manufacturer
- Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 5,320 kilograms (11,730 lb)
- Landing mass
- G
- Members
- Vladimir Komarov , Konstantin Feoktistov , Boris Yegorov
- Callsign
- Рубин ( Rubin - "Ruby")
- Launch date
- 12 October 1964, 07:30:01 ( 1964-10-12UTC07:30:01Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod 11A57
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Landing date
- 13 October 1964, 07:47:04 ( 1964-10-13UTC07:47:05Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- 52°2′N 68°8′E / 52.033°N 68.133°E / 52.033; 68.133
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth
- Perigee altitude
- 178 kilometres (111 mi)
- Apogee altitude
- 336 kilometres (209 mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Voskhod 1 (Russian: Восход-1, lit. 'Sunrise-1') was the seventh crewed Soviet space flight. Flown by cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Boris Yegorov, it launched 12 October 1964, and returned on the 13th. Voskhod 1 was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, the first flight without the use of spacesuits, and the first to carry either an engineer or a physician into outer space. It also set a crewed spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi).
The three spacesuits for the Voskhod 1 cosmonauts were omitted; there was neither the room nor the payload capacity for the Voskhod to carry them. The original Voskhod had been designed to carry two cosmonauts, but Soviet politicians pushed the Soviet space program into squeezing three cosmonauts into Voskhod 1. The only other space flight in the short Voskhod program, Voskhod 2, carried two suited cosmonauts – of necessity, because it was the flight on which Alexei Leonov made the world's first walk in space.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Voskhod 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.