Soyuz 8

 1969-087A

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The third member of the fleet was 7K-OK No. 16 (Soyuz-8), which carried the active docking system. The radar system failed and attempted rendezvous was carried out manually.

Soyuz-8
Date	Time	Event	Orbit
1969 Oct 13	1019:09	Launch by Soyuz 11A511	KB
		T+1:55 SAS sep
		T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep
		T+2:45 Fairing
		T+4:45 Blok A sep
		T+4:48 St 3 MES
	1027:59	T+8:50 St 3 MECO
	1028	St 3 sep
	2330		89.37 208 x 279 x 51.64
1969 Oct 14		Flyby Soyuz-7, miss by 1 km
1969 Oct 15	0940	Within 1.7 km, begin manual approach
	0950?	Flyby Soyuz-7, miss by 500m
	2245		88.79 202 x 228 x 51.65
1969 Oct 16	1200	Manual orbit correction
	1800		88.70 208 x 212 x 51.63
1969 Oct 17	0850		88.90 205 x 236 x 51.65
1969 Oct 18	0829:30	Retrofire
	0832?	DO CO
	0842?	Modules sep
	0848?	Entry
	0909:58	Landed 145 km N of Karaganda