.png) Soyuz 11 on a 1971 commemorative stamp of the Soviet Union | |
| Mission type | Dock with Salyut 1 |
|---|---|
| Operator | Soviet space program |
| COSPAR ID | 1971-053A |
| SATCAT no. | 05283 |
| Mission duration | 23 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes, 43 seconds |
| Orbits completed | 383 |
| Spacecraft properties | |
| Spacecraft | Soyuz, 7K-T No. 32[1] |
| Spacecraft type | Soyuz 7K-OKS |
| Manufacturer | Experimental Design Bureau (OKB-1) |
| Launch mass | 6565 kg[2] |
| Landing mass | 1200 kg |
| Crew | |
| Crew size | 3 |
| Members | |
| Callsign | Янтарь (Yantar – "Amber") |
| Start of mission | |
| Launch date | 6 June 1971, 04:55:09 GMT |
| Rocket | Soyuz |
| Launch site | Baikonur, Site 1/5[3] |
| End of mission | |
| Landing date | 29 June 1971, 23:16:52 GMT |
| Landing site | 90 km southwest of Karazhal, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union 47°21′23″N 70°07′16″E / 47.35639°N 70.12111°E |
| Orbital parameters | |
| Reference system | Geocentric orbit[4] |
| Regime | Low Earth orbit |
| Perigee altitude | 185.0 km |
| Apogee altitude | 217.0 km |
| Inclination | 51.6° |
| Period | 88.3 minutes |
| Docking with Salyut 1 | |
| Docking date | 7 June 1971 |
| Undocking date | 29 June 1971, 18:28 GMT[2] |
| Time docked | 22 days |
 Zvezda Rocket  (l-r) Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsayev | |
Soyuz 11 (Russian: Союз 11, lit. 'Union 11') was the only crewed mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1.[a][5] The crew, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev,[6][7][8] arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971, and departed on 29 June 1971. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurised during preparations for re-entry, killing the three-person crew.[9] The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the only humans to have died in space.[b][10]
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