 Voskhod 1 capsule in the Science Museum, London | |
| Operator | Soviet space program |
|---|---|
| COSPAR ID | 1964-065A |
| SATCAT no. | 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) |
| Landing mass | G |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | Vladimir Komarov Konstantin Feoktistov Boris Yegorov |
| Callsign | Рубин (Rubin - "Ruby")[1] |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 12 October 1964, 07:30:01 UTC[2] |
| Rocket | Voskhod 11A57 |
| Launch site | Baikonur 1/5[2] |
| 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 altitude | 178 kilometres (111 mi) |
| Apogee altitude | 336 kilometres (209 mi) |
| Inclination | 64.7 degrees |
| Period | 89.6 minutes |
Voskhod 1 (Russian: Восход-1, lit. 'Sunrise-1') was the seventh crewed Soviet space flight. Flown by cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, and Boris Yegorov, it launched 12 October 1964, and returned on the 13th. Voskhod 1 was the first human spaceflight 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 crewed spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi).[3]
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.[4]
As part of its payload Voskhod 1 carried a ribbon off a Communard banner from the Paris Commune of 1871 into orbit.[5]
- ^ Yenne, Bill (1988). The Pictorial History of World Spaceflight. Exeter. p. 31. ISBN 0-7917-0188-3.
- ^ a b "Baikonur LC1". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 30 March 2009.
- ^ "Voskhod 1". www.astronautix.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2008. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ^ "Voskhod 2". www.astronautix.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2013. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
- ^ Horne, Alistair (1965). The Fall of Paris. Macmillan. p. 433.