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Voskhod 1

Voskhod 1
Voskhod 1 capsule on display, 2016.jpg
Voskhod 1 capsule in a museum display (2016)
Operator Soviet space program
COSPAR ID 1964-065A
SATCAT № 904
Mission duration 1 day, 17 minutes, 3 seconds
Orbits completed 16
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Voskhod-3KV No.3
Manufacturer Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1
Launch mass 5,320 kilograms (11,730 lb)
Crew
Crew size 3
Members Vladimir Komarov
Konstantin Feoktistov
Boris Yegorov
Callsign Рубин (Rubin - "Ruby")
Start of mission
Launch date 12 October 1964, 07:30:01 (1964-10-12UTC07:30:01Z) UTC
Rocket Voskhod 11A57
Launch site Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
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
Orbital parameters
Reference system Geocentric
Regime Low Earth
Perigee 178 kilometres (111 mi)
Apogee 336 kilometres (209 mi)
Inclination 64.7 degrees
Period 89.6 minutes

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Voskhod 1 crew after landing


Voskhod programme
Manned flights
Voskhod 2

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Voskhod 1 crew after landing

Voskhod 1 (Russian: Восход-1, Восход is Russian for Sunrise) was the seventh manned Soviet space flight. In October of 1964 it achieved a number of "firsts" in the history of manned spaceflight, being the first space flight 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 manned 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.

As part of its payload Voskhod 1 carried a ribbon off a Communard banner from the Paris Commune of 1871 into orbit.


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