| 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 | ||
| Return to Master List | Soviet Cosmonauts | Soyuz Program | Spacewalkers |
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Updated - March 26, 2006