Soyuz 3
Soyuz 3
| Mission Statistics |
| Mission Name: | Soyuz 3 |
| Call Sign: | Аргон (Argon - "Argon") |
| Number of Crew Members: | 1 |
| Launch: | October 26, 1968
08:34 UTC
Baikonur LC1 |
| Landing: | October 30, 1968
07:26 UTC |
| Duration: | 3 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes |
| Number of Orbits: | 64 |
Soyuz 3 was the first crewed launch of a Soyuz spacecraft since the accident that killed
cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov on Soyuz 1. That ill-fated flight had been intended to
rendezvous and dock with Soyuz 2; now Soyuz 3 with cosmonaut Georgi Beregovoi would attempt
this goal.
Ground controllers were able to bring the two spacecraft within 200m of one another before
Beregovoi took control of the Soyuz to complete the maneuver. Unfortunately, while he was able
to close the gap to only one metre, three successive attempts to dock failed. Eventually,
almost all of the maneuvering fuel was expended and the objective had to be abandoned. The failure
was blamed on Beregovoi's piloting
The plane crash that killed Yuri Gagarin was during his training for this mission.
Crew
Mission Parameters
- Mass: 6575 kg
- Perigee: 183 km
- Apogee: 205 km
- Inclination: 51.7°
- Period: 88.3 minutes
Referenced By
Georgi Beregovoi | Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi | Launch pad accident | List of catastrophic incidents related to human spaceflight | List of catastrophic incidents related to manned space exploration | List of catastrophic incidents related to manned space travel | List of crewed space missions chronologically | List of human spaceflights, 1961-1986 | List of human spaceflights by program | List of human spaceflights chronologically | List of manned space missions chronologically | List of space disasters | Soyuz 1 | Soyuz 2 | Soyuz 4 | Soyuz program | Soyuz programme | Space disaster | Space disasters
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