The capsule would soon rendezvous and dock to the Soyuz 4 capsule becoming – as the Soviet’s declared – the world’s first space station. During the mission, two cosmonauts performed a ...

In the USSR, this happened only once, in 1969, with the Soyuz-4 launch, which was manned by cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov. Research institutions responsible for future technologies to be determined ...

Soyuz lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at about 10:31 Moscow Time (07:31 UTC), beginning a multi-hour mission to deliver the Tundra No.4 satellite into an elliptical Molniya orbit.

Kiev catches a hundred of Putin's soldiers by surprise who advanced 15 kilometers through a pipeline to take positions in ...

"A Feat on the Stellar Path" The docking of Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 in January 1969 was the first time two manned spacecraft were linked together in orbit. It was a much-needed first for the Soviet ...

In the USSR, this happened only once, in 1969, with the Soyuz-4 launch, which was manned by cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov.

Soyuz-FG – getting ready for retirement ... used on the first human space flight in 1961, the crew performed a 4 orbit, 6.5 hour rendezvous and automated docking with the international outpost.

March 3 (Reuters) - Russian Aerospace Forces, part of the country's armed forces, launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a spacecraft for defence purposes, the state RIA news agency reported early on ...