Voskhod 1
On October 12th, 1964, the USSR continued its
pioneering conquest of space orbiting the first multi-member crew on board the
Voskhod ("sunrise") spacecraft.
This was the seventh manned Soviet space flight. It was the
first space flight to carry crewman into orbit, without the use of spacesuits,
and the first to carry either an engineer or a physician into outer space. It
also set a manned spacecraft altitude record of 336 km (209 mi).
The three cosmonauts Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin
Feoktistov, and Boris Yegorov had no space suits in Voskhod 1 because there was
neither the room nor the payload capacity for the Voskhod to carry them. The
original Voskhod had been designed to carry two cosmonauts, but Soviet
politicians pushed the Soviet space program into squeezing three cosmonauts
into Voskhod 1.
The cosmonauts safely returned to Earth the following day
October 13th 1964.
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