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Duration: 1.01 days
Decay Date: 1964-10-13
USAF Sat Cat: 904
COSPAR: 1964-065A
Apogee: 336 km (208 mi)
Perigee: 178 km (110 mi)
Inclination: 64.7000 deg
Period: 89.60 min
Voskhod 1 was the first multi-manned spacecraft, and the first spacecraft to carry a scientist (Feoktistov) and a physician (Yegorov) into space. The 3KV variant of the Vostok spacecraft significantly reduced crew safety in order to upstage American Gemini flights; no spacesuits, ejection seats, or escape tower. One concession was backup solid retrorocket package mounted on nose of spacecraft. The seats were mounted perpendicular to the nominal orientation of the Vostok ejection seat position, so the crew had to crane their necks to read instruments, which were still mounted in their original orientation. The flight tested the new multi-seat configuration; investigated the in-flight work potential and co-operation of a group of cosmonauts consisting of specialists in different branches of science and technology; conducted scientific physico-technical and medico-biological research. The mission featured television pictures of the crew from space. It was the first Soviet spacecraft to return from space with the crew inside.
References:
Encyclopedia Astronautica.
Russian Space Web
Wikipedia.
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