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 ...

[Ken Shirriff] writes about taking apart the digital clock module from the Soviet Soyuz series of spacecraft and there are a lot of interesting bits to the device. After all, it has been into space.

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 ...