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Soyuz | Soyuz 9
Soviet Space Program31/6 — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Soyuz 9
- Type
- Human Exploration
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Soyuz 9 carried cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev & Vitali Sevastyanov to orbit. The mission lasted 17 days, 16 hours & 58 minutes completing 288 orbits around Earth. They broke the endurance record held by Gemini 7 for 5 years. This was the first crewed space launch that lifted off at night. As of 2016 it still holds the record for longest crewed flight by a solo spacecraft. The goal of the mission was to conduct various pysiological and biomedical experiments on themselves and invastigate possible social implications of extended duration spaceflight.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Soyuz
- Family
- Soyuz
- Provider
- Soviet Space Program
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
launch site
- Pad
- 31/6
- Location
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country
- KAZ
- Timezone
- Asia/Qyzylorda
- Coordinates
- 45.9960, 63.5640