LAUNCH MISSION

Soviet Space Program Soyuz 6

Name: Soviet Space Program Soyuz 6
Start: 1969-10-11T11:10:00.000Z
Location: 31/6

Status

Success

DATE

11 OCT 1969

LAUNCH PROVIDER

Soviet Space Program

Launch Pad

31/6

Description

Soyuz 6 was a joint mission with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 that saw three spacecraft in orbit together at the same time. Soyuz 6 mission was to take high quality photographs of the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking but on all three spacecraft the docking system failed. The mission was commanded by Georgi Shonin and Flight Engineer Valeri Kubasov.

Soyuz

return