X-Nico

8 unusual facts about Soyuz


DemoSat

Defunct satellites from cancelled programmes may be flown as DemoSats, for example the maiden flight of the Soyuz-2 rocket placed an obsolete Zenit-8 satellite onto a sub-orbital trajectory in order to test the rocket's performance.

Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D

In December 2010 via the Russian spacecraft Soyuz 25S, a European Space Agency astronaut brought the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 aboard the International Space Station.

GLONASS-K

For launching the satellites, two options are planned: six satellites simultaneously from Baikonur Cosmodrome on the heavy-lift Proton-M, or two simultaneously from Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Soyuz-2 with a Fregat upper stage.

Soyuz-1

Soyuz TM-31, the first Soyuz mission to the International Space Station

Soyuz-2

Soyuz TM-32, the second Soyuz mission to the International Space Station

Soyuz-2-1v

It is built by TsSKB Progress, at Samara in the Russian Federation.

Russia exhibited a model of the Soyuz-2-1v during the 2011 Paris Air Show at Le Bourget.

Soyuz-TMA

The spacecraft features several changes to accommodate requirements requested by NASA in order to service the International Space Station, including more latitude in the height and weight of the crew and improved parachute systems.


Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov

Upon arriving at Mir, Aleksandrov became the first Bulgarian to reach a Soviet space station, as the Soyuz 33 mission carrying Georgi Ivanov failed to reach the Salyut 6 space station.

Aleksei Gubarev

His next mission, in 1978, was Soyuz 28, the first Interkosmos flight, where he was accompanied by Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia.

Central Asia–Center gas pipeline system

At Alexandrov Gay CAC pipelines meet with Soyuz and Orenburg–Novopskov pipelines.

Expedition 13

Astronaut Marcos Pontes launched with Expedition 13 on the Soyuz TMA-8 spacecraft and became the first Brazilian in space.

Ismail Akbay

Between 1963 and 1975, Akbay served in various managerial capacities during NASA’s Apollo, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz projects.

James A. Pawelczyk

(Polish Cosmonaut Mirosław Hermaszewski was the first Pole in space in 1978 when he flew aboard a Soyuz 30 spacecraft as part of a Soviet bloc program 'Interkosmos'.) In 1999, Pawelczyk and three other astronauts from the STS-90 crew were guests of State of the Republic of Poland.

Japanese rice fish

O. latipes returned to space in 2012, launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Soyuz TMA-06M and housed in an aquarium aboard the International Space Station.

Lori Garver

While providing support to a client who was paying for a trip to space, she attempted to secure her own sponsored space flight, as "the first Soccer Mom" aboard the Russian Soyuz vehicle to the International Space Station.

Melomane

Melomane was invited to play in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2006 by the US Embassy in Russia to support the Russian release of their third album Glaciers, on the Russian record label Soyuz Music.

Mir EO-4

The French president at the time, François Mitterrand, insisted on attending the launch of the Soyuz TM-7, of which Frenchman Chrétien was a crew member.

Mir EP-3

The crew of EP-3, also known as the Soyuz TM-6 crew, consisted of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov as commander, and the first Afghan to visit space, Abdul Ahad Mohmand.

Progress 1

Progress 1 was launched at 08:24:40 UTC on 20 January 1978, atop a Soyuz-U 11A511U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Progress 2

Progress 2 was launched at 11:26:16 UTC on 7 July 1978, atop a Soyuz-U 11A511U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Progress 3

Progress 3 was launched at 22:31:22 UTC on 7 August 1978, atop a Soyuz-U 11A511U carrier rocket flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.

Project 921-3

Some small models for a space plane were made public, but the concept was rejected in favor of a Soyuz-like capsule which became Shenzhou.

Pyotr Kolodin

He trained as test engineer to fly on Soyuz 11 to visit the Salyut 1 space station, but the entire crew was bumped when it was suspected that flight engineer Valeri Kubasov had contracted tuberculosis.

Rakesh Sharma

He joined 2 other Soviet cosmonauts aboard the Soyuz T-11 spacecraft which blasted off on 2 April 1984.He graduated from Nizam College, Osmania University in Hyderabad.

RP-1

In the case of the Soyuz and other R7-based rockets, the temperature penalty was minor.

Skylab B

Some uses considered for the second Skylab module included putting it into a mode where it could generate artificial gravity and a plan to celebrate the 1976 United States Bicentennial with the launch of two Soviet Soyuz missions to the back-up Skylab.

Soyuz 11

The original prime crew for Soyuz 11 consisted of Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov and Pyotr Kolodin.

Soyuz T-12

The appearance of Volk as a crew member caused some, including the British Interplanetary Society magazine Spaceflight, to ask why a test pilot was occupying a Soyuz seat usually reserved for researchers or foreign cosmonauts.

Soyuz TM-31

The crew launched by Soyuz TM-32, which included the first paying space tourist Dennis Tito, were returned to Earth in May aboard Soyuz TM-31.

Sprachbund

The term Sprachbund, a calque of the Russian term языковой союз (yazykovoy soyuz; "language union"), was introduced by Nikolai Trubetzkoy in an article in 1923.

Susan J. Helms

She and her crewmates also performed a 'fly around' of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and welcomed the visiting Soyuz crew that included the first space tourist, Dennis Tito.

Texas Prison Rodeo

The rodeo became part of the history of the US space program when, during the training for the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz mission, NASA brought the cosmonauts in training, along with other Soviet personnel, to the Huntsville rodeo.

Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia

The Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (In Russian: Soyuz' Bor'bi za Osvobozhdeniye Narodov Rossii, Союз Борьбы за Освобождение Народов России, abbreviated as SBONR, СБОНР) was an organization of anti-communist Russians, regardless of ethnic origin, which emerged from the youth organization of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia.

Vladimir Georgiyevich Titov

After three weeks of joint work, Titov and Manarov returned to Earth together, along with the French cosmonaut Jean-Loup Chrétien aboard Soyuz TM-6.


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