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| Voskhod Missions
Voskhod was a further evolution of the Korabl/Vostok line of piloted spacecraft. More missions were planned but the programme was dropped in favour of Soyuz.
There was another Voskhod-related mission. It can be found in the Zenit-4 list as Cosmos 59(1965-015A/1191). Because of the re-entry failure of Cosmos 57/Voskhod, there was no data available on the re-entry behaviour of the cabin with its attached airlock base. Cosmos 59 was equipped with a dummy airlock in the location of the one on Voskhod. Its effects on the aerodynamics could then be measured.
Cosmos 47 (Voskhod-3KV №2) 1964-062A 891 |
1964 Oct 6, 07:12 UTC Baikonur Cosmodrome Voskhod, 11A57 |
1964 Oct 06: 175 x 385 km, 64.6 deg, 90.2 min |
Test mission prior to the first Voskhod flight. Successfully recovered. |
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Voskhod (Voskhod-3KV №3) 1964-065A 904 |
1964 Oct 12, 07:30 UTC Baikonur Cosmodrome Voskhod, 11A57 |
1964 Oct 12: 178 x 337 km, 64.8 deg, 89.7 min |
Piloted space mssion carrying world's first multi-person crew of Vladimir Komarov, Boris Yegorov (a doctor) and Konstantin Feoktistov (spacecraft design engineer), successfully recovered. |
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Cosmos 57 (Voskhod-3KD №1) 1965-012A 1093 |
1965 Feb 22, 07:40 UTC Baikonur Cosmodrome Voskhod, 11A57 |
1965 Feb 22: 164 x 426 km, 64.8 deg, 90.5 min |
Test mission prior to the Voskhod 2 flight. Objectives - test out the EVA suit and the inflatable EVA airlock. Both test were successful but when Cosmos 57 received two radio commands simultaneously, the onboard system set in motion a train of events that led to its disintegration through ignition of the auto-destruct system. As a result, it was not possible to measure the aerodynamic effects during re-entry of the airlock attachment ring. This was subsequently undertaken by Cosmos 59, a Zenit-4 spacecraft. |
Re-entry Unsuccesful |
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Voskhod 2 (Voskhod-3KD №4) 1965-022A 1274 |
1965 Mar 18, 07:00 UTC Baikonur Cosmodrome Voskhod, 11A57 |
1965 Mar 18: 168 x 473 km, 64.8 deg, 91.0 min |
Piloted spacecraft carrying Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyaev. Leonov became the first human being to exit from a spacecraft in orbit (the first EVA). Landing delayed by one circuit of the Earth when the primary retro-rocket failed to fire and the back-up system had to be used. The off-target landing meant that the crew had to remain with the spacecraft for a whole day before the recovery team arrived. |
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Cosmos 110 (Voskhod-3KV №5) 1966-015A 2070 |
1966 Feb 22, 20:09 UTC Baikonur Cosmodrome Voskhod, 11A57 |
1966 Feb 23: 193 x 880 km, 51.9 deg, 95.3 min |
Voskhod spacrcraft carrying two dogs, Veterok and Ugolyok, and other specimens on a long duration mission. Successfully recovered. |
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Page date: 2011 Sep 14
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