Saturday, February 25, 2006

Soyuz 4

  1969-004A


7K-OK (11F615) No. 12 was launched on 1969 Jan 14 with pilot Vladimir Shatalov aboard.

After docking, Soyuz-5 bortinzhener (flight engineer) Aleksey Yeliseev and inzhener-ispitatel' (test engineer) Yevgeniy Khrunov transferred from the BO of Soyuz-5 to that of Soyuz-4. The Yastreb spacesuits had life support systems strapped to the legs, to allow the astronauts to fit through the 0.66m diameter BO hatches (later missions had enlarged hatches).

Khrunov went outside first, then returned to the compartment because he had connected Yeliseyev's suit to external supply instead of his own. After he transferred and connected to Soyuz-5, Yeliseyev made the transfer. The Yastreb spacesuits were left in the Soyuz-5 orbital module.


Soyuz-4 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Jan 14  0730:00 Launch by 11A511  KB 
  T+1:55 SAS sep 
  T+1:58 Blok BVGD sep 
  T+2:45 Fairing 
  T+4:48 Blok A sep 
  T+4:48 St 3 MES 
 0738:50  T+8:50 St 3 MECO 
 0739?  St 3 sep 
   88.21 152 x 220 x 51.74 
 1300   88.25 161 x 215 x 51.73 
 1335  Orbit trim  
1969 Jan 15  0345   88.77 206 x 222 x 51.72 
 0400   88.80 206 x 224 x 51.70 
1969 Jan 16   Orbit raise  201 x 254 x 51.7 
1969 Jan 16  0737  Rendezvous braking (Igla on) 
1969 Jan 16  0820  Docked with Soyuz-5 
  EVA, Soyuz-4 BO depress 
  Soyuz-5 BI and II to Soyuz-4 BO 
 1148  Hatch closed, repress BO 
1969 Jan 16  1255  Undocked 
1969 Jan 17  0608? Retrofire 
 0611?  DO CO  
 0621?  Modules sep 
 0627?  Entry 
 0650:47  Landed after 2:23:20:47

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