On this date, Jan. 15, 1969, the Soviet Union launched Soyuz 5. The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first ...

50 years ago: Soviet Union launches Soyuz 17 space mission On January 11, 1975, Soyuz 17, carrying soviet cosmonauts Aleksei Gubarev and Georgi Grechko, launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...

the parachute becomes tangled and Soyuz 1 slams into the ground at high speed, killing Komarov. It is the first death to occur during a space flight. September 14: The Soviet Union sends Zond 5 ...

Soyuz design bureau chief Vasily Mishin may ... Leonov recalled the reaction in the Soviet Union: "There were lots of letters addressed to the government, all of which asked how it could have ...

Three months later, the Soviet Union launched a manned spaceship, Soyuz 1. It was their reentry into the space race after two years of not launching manned space vehicles. As usual, the Russians ...