Name: Yeliseyev, Aleksei Country: Soviet Union M/F: M Number of Flights: 3

Space Flights Launch Date - Flight Up Landing Date - Flight Down
1. Soyuz 5 January 15, 1969 - Soyuz 5 January 17, 1969 - Soyuz 4
2. Soyuz 8 October 13, 1969 - Soyuz 8 October 18, 1969 - Soyuz 8
3. Soyuz 10 April 22, 1971 - Soyuz 10 April 24, 1971 - Soyuz 10

Space Flights Descriptions
Soyuz 2A
(Cancelled)
Proposed Prime Crew of a planned flight to dock with Soyuz 1
Soyuz 2A was planned to dock with Soyuz 1 and two cosmonauts would have spacewalked from Soyuz 2A to Soyuz 1. Problems with Soyuz 1 lead to an early landing. Parachute problems lead to Soyuz 1 to crash, killing its pilot. Soyuz 2A was inspected after the crash and was discovered to have the same flaw in its parachute system.
1. Soyuz 5 Docked with Soyuz 4
Aleksei Yeliseyev transferred to Soyuz 4 during a spacewalking transfer between two spacecraft.
Soyuz 6
(Backup Crew)
Carried Vulkan welding furnace for vacuum welding experiments
Soyuz 7
(Backup Crew)
Rendezvous with Soyuz 8
2. Soyuz 8 Rendezvous with Soyuz 7
Soyuz (Kontakt) 9
(Cancelled)
Proposed Crew for a flight to test the Kontakt lunar rendezvous/docking system
Soyuz (Kontakt) 9 was the active spacecraft of the first pair of Soyuz spacecraft that was planned to test the Kontakt lunar rendezvous/docking system in Earth orbit. By April 1969, two separate docking missions were planned to follow the triple mission of Soyuz 6-Soyuz 7-Soyuz 8. Soyuz (Kontakt) 9 would have been the active spacecraft, simulating the LOK lunar orbiter and would have docked with Soyuz (Kontakt) 10.
3. Soyuz 10 First mission to Salyut 1
Soyuz 10 docked with Salyut 1 on April 24, 1971.
The crew could not enter Salyut 1 due to a jammed hatch on Soyuz 10

Spacewalks - 1
Space Flights Date & Duration Purpose
Soyuz 5 January 16, 1969 Demonstrate a spacewalking transfer between two spacecraft
37 minutes

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Updated - March 26, 2006