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missions. However, the remaining Original Soyuz craft were “re-assigned for the performance of engineering experiments in a group flight . . . and in a longduration flight.”[1] These were the Soyuz 6, 7, and 8 and Soyuz 9 missions, respectively. |}
Soyuz 6 | October 11-16, 1969 | |
Georgi Shonin, Valeri Kubasov Crew code name—Antey |
Soyuz 7 | October 12-17, 1969 | |
Anatoli Filipchenko, Viktor Gorbatko, Vladislav Volkov Crew code name—Buran |
Soyuz 8 | October 13-18, 1969 | |
Vladimir Shatalov, Alexei Yeliseyev Crew code name—Granit A unique joint flight of three Original Soyuz spacecraft carrying a total of seven cosmonauts. Soyuz 6 was a test of equipment to be used on future space stations. It carried welding equipment in its orbital module and had no docking apparatus. It was also intended to photograph the docking between Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8, which did not occur.[2] |
Soyuz 9 | June 1-19, 1970 | |
Andrian Nikolayev, Vitali Sevastyonov Crew code name–Sokol Remained aloft for 17 days, 17 hr, beating the U.S. space endurance record set by the Gemini 7 astronauts in 1965. The mission gathered biomedical data in support of future space station missions. |