Voskhod 1 capsule in a museum display (2016)
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Operator | Soviet space program | ||||
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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 |
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Callsign | Рубин (Rubin - "Ruby") | ||||
Start of mission | |||||
Launch date | 12 October 1964, 07:30:01 | UTC||||
Rocket | Voskhod 11A57 | ||||
Launch site | Baikonur 1/5 | ||||
End of mission | |||||
Landing date | 13 October 1964, 07:47:04 | UTC||||
Landing site | 52°2′N 68°8′E / 52.033°N 68.133°E | ||||
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 (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.