Monday, July 18, 1994

Voskhod 1 (Ruby)

  1964-065A


Spacecraft 3KV No. 3 was launched a week after the 3KV No. 2 flight test. The stripped down Vostok craft carried three men in underwear instead of one person in a spacesuit and ejector seat. The Korolev team thus beat NASA to the first multi-person space crew. Commander was Vladimir Komarov of the Air Force cosmonaut detachment; his crewmates were the first civilian cosmonauts. The Nauchniy Sotrudnik (Scientific Coworker) was Konstantin Feoktistov, one of Korolev's engineers, and the Vrach (Physician) was Boris Yegorov. The 3KV spacecraft was named Voskhod (Sunrise). The ship was launched aboard an 11A57 (Voskhod) launch vehicle, the first use of the Blok-I third stage for a piloted flight.


Voskhod 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Oct 12  0730:01  Launch by 11A57  KB 
 0734?  Blok I burn 
 0739?  Blok I MECO 
1964 Oct 12    90.04 177 x 377 x 64.9 (RAE) 
 0851   89.65 177 x 336 x 64.72 (TLE) 
1964 Oct 13  0655:39  Orient for retro 
 0718:58  Retrofire 5N 37E 
 0725PO sep, reserve retro sep 
 0731Reentry 
 0747:04  Landed 13 km NE Kustanai, 54 02 N 68 08E

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