Portal:Spaceflight/Selected article/Week 41 2009

Soyuz 6 (Союз 6, Union 6) launched October 11, 1969 as part of a joint mission with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying seven cosmonauts. The crew of Georgi Shonin and Valeri Kubasov were meant to take high-quality movie photography of Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking but the rendezvous systems on the spacecraft failed and no docking took place. (more...)