Soyuz 6
Soyuz 6 was part of a joint October, 1969, mission with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 that saw the three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying a total of seven cosmonauts. The crew of Georgy Shonin and Valeri Kubasov were meant to take high-quality movie photography of the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking, but the rendezvous systems on all three spacecraft failed.
- Program
- Soyuz programme
- Launch
- Oct 11, 1969
- Return
- Oct 16, 1969
- Duration
- 5 days
- Outcome
- Success
Crew
- 🇸🇺 Valeri Kubasov —
- 🇸🇺 Georgy Shonin —
- 🇷🇺 Vladimir Shatalov — · backup
- 🇸🇺 Aleksei Yeliseyev — · backup