Soyuz 5
Soyuz 5 was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on 15 January 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit. It was the first docking of two crewed spacecraft of any nation, and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another of any nation, the only time a transfer was accomplished with a space walk – two months before the United States Apollo 9 mission performed the first internal crew transfer.
- Program
- Soyuz programme
- Launch
- Jan 15, 1969
- Return
- Jan 18, 1969
- Duration
- 3 days
- Outcome
- Success
Crew
- 🇸🇺 Evgeniy Vasilievich Khrunov —
- 🇷🇺 Boris Volynov —
- 🇸🇺 Aleksei Yeliseyev —
- 🇸🇺 Anatoly Filipchenko — · backup
- 🇸🇺 Viktor Gorbatko — · backup
- 🇸🇺 Valeri Kubasov — · backup