Soyuz 11

Soyuz 11
Soyuz 11 on a 1971 commemorative stamp of the Soviet Union
Mission typeDock with Salyut 1
OperatorSoviet space program
COSPAR ID1971-053A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.05283
Mission duration23 days, 18 hours, 21 minutes, 43 seconds
Orbits completed383
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftSoyuz, 7K-T No. 32[1]
Spacecraft typeSoyuz 7K-OKS
ManufacturerExperimental Design Bureau (OKB-1)
Launch mass6565 kg[2]
Landing mass1200 kg
Crew
Crew size3
Members
CallsignЯнтарь (Yantar – "Amber")
Start of mission
Launch date6 June 1971, 04:55:09 GMT
RocketSoyuz
Launch siteBaikonur, Site 1/5[3]
End of mission
Landing date29 June 1971, 23:16:52 GMT
Landing site90 km southwest of Karazhal, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
47°21′23″N 70°07′16″E / 47.35639°N 70.12111°E / 47.35639; 70.12111
Orbital parameters
Reference systemGeocentric orbit[4]
RegimeLow Earth orbit
Perigee altitude185.0 km
Apogee altitude217.0 km
Inclination51.6°
Period88.3 minutes
Docking with Salyut 1
Docking date7 June 1971
Undocking date29 June 1971, 18:28 GMT[2]
Time docked22 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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