* 1968 – Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission.

As reported by Reuters on March 3, 2010, Russia announced that the country would double the number of launches of three-man Soyuz ships to four that year, because " permanent crews of professional astronauts aboard the expanded station are set to rise to six "; regarding space tourism, the head of the Russian Cosmonauts ' Training Center said " for some time there will be a break in these journeys ".

The Soyuz 1 tragedy delayed the launch of Soyuz 2 and Soyuz 3 until October 25, 1968.

Soyuz 2 (, Union 2 ) was an uncrewed spacecraft in the Soyuz family intended to be the target of an docking maneuver by the manned Soyuz 3 spacecraft.

*** Soyuz 3

He trained in Star City near Moscow for the next two years, and flew on board Soyuz 31 ( launched 26 August 1978 ) to the Soviet space station Salyut 6, and returned on Soyuz 29, landing on 3 September 1978.

Suit fabrication and testing occurred in 1967, but the Soyuz 1 accident in April of that year and Soyuz docking difficulties on the Soyuz 2 and Soyuz 3 missions delayed their use in space until Soyuz 4-Soyuz 5.

Nikolayev flew on two space flights: Vostok 3 ( effectively becoming the third Soviet cosmonaut ) and Soyuz 9.

As a result revised spacecraft were built for redesigned Soyuz 2 and Soyuz 3 missions in 1968.

The unmanned Soyuz 2 was launched on October 25, 1968, and Soyuz 3 followed it the next afternoon.

Beregovoy and Soyuz 3 came back to earth on October 30, 1968, after completing eighty-one full orbits of earth.

The Soviets hailed Soyuz 3 as a complete success.

While Skylab already featured a second docking port, it were these two Salyut stations that would become the first that actually utilized two docking ports: This made it possible for two Soyuz spacecraft to dock at the same time for crew exchange of the station and for Progress spacecraft to resupply the station, allowing for the first time a continuos (" permanent ") occupation of space stations.

Khrunov and Yeliseyev put on their Yastreb (" hawk ") suits in the Soyuz 5 orbital module with aid from Commander Boris Volynov.

Khrunov and Yeliseyev put on their Yastreb (" hawk ") suits in the Soyuz 5 orbital module with aid from Commander Boris Volynov.

Its mission in a group flight was to film the intended docking of Soyuz 7 ( called Buran, which means " snowstorm ") with Soyuz 8, called Granit (" granite ")-standard Soviet military call signs.

* 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 ( Russian: Союз 1, Union 1 ) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.

* 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.

On January 16, 1969, the Soviet Union achieved the first EVA crew transfer from one spacecraft to another when Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov transferred from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4, which were docked together.

* 1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.

In 1911 he participated in the second exhibition of the group Soyuz Molodyozhi ( Union of Youth ) in St. Petersburg, together with Vladimir Tatlin and, in 1912, the group held its third exhibition, which included works by Aleksandra Ekster, Tatlin and others.

* February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 ( Viktor Gorbatko, Yuri Glazkov ) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.

** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.

* January 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5, which docked with Soyuz 4 for a transfer of crew.

* June 1 – Soyuz 9, a two man spacecraft, is launched in the Soviet Union.

* March 2 – Soyuz 28 ( Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimir Remek ) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a third country ( besides the Soviet Union and United States ) – Czechoslovak citizen Vladimír Remek.

The Soyuz programme (,, meaning " Union ") is a human spaceflight programme that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon.

In the end it turned out that the Soviet N1 " Moon Shot " rocket never flew successfully, so OKB-1's decisions to abandon the ill fated Soviet maned lunar program, and to derive a DOS space station from existing Soyuz subsystems and an Almaz-OPS hull proved to be right: The actual time to the launch of the first DOS-based Salyut 1 space station from the get-go was an impressive 16 months – the world's first space station was launched by the Soviet Union, two years before Skylab or the first Almaz-OPS station flew.

Soyuz 1 (, Union 1 ) was a manned spaceflight of the Soviet space program.

Soyuz (, ), Union ) is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space programme by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today.

Soyuz 5 (, Union 5 ) was a Soyuz mission using the Soyuz 7K-OK spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on January 15, 1969, which docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit.

Soyuz ( Cyrillic: " Союз ") is Russian for " Union ", and was often used as an abbreviation for the " Union of Soviet Socialist Republics " ( Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ) during the Communist era.

The initial " Elbrus crew ", would return to Earth in the Soyuz T-7 spacecraft in December 1982.

Later Soyuz flights to the Salyut space stations and Mir had less noteworthy call signs: Foton, meaning " photon ", etc.

However, because most other facilities of the Centre Spatial Guyanais are in the neighbouring and more populous Kourou commune, and because the entire CSG itself is thus often called the Kourou space centre, the Guianan Soyuz site / project is also occasionally called " Soyuz at Kourou ", even though this is technically incorrect.

Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

The Elektronika MK-52 calculator ( using the extended B3-34 command set, and featuring internal EEPROM memory for storing programs and external interface for EEPROM cards and other periphery ) was used in Soviet spacecraft program ( for Soyuz TM-7 flight ) as a backup of the board computer.

* 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.

Gagarin was backup pilot for his friend Vladimir Komarov in the Soyuz 1 flight, which was launched despite Gagarin's protests that additional safety precautions were necessary.

The launch of Soyuz TMA-21 on 4 April 2011 was devoted to the 50th anniversary of the first manned space mission.

The basic Soyuz spacecraft design was the basis for many projects, many of which never came to light.

Its earliest form was intended to travel to the moon without employing a huge booster like the Saturn V or the Soviet N-1 by repeatedly docking with upper stages that had been put in orbit using the same rocket as the Soyuz.

Komarov was later chosen for the rigorous task of commanding Soyuz 1 as part of the Soviet Union's bid to reach the Moon first.

Komarov was assigned to the Soviet Soyuz program along with Yuri Gagarin and Alexei Leonov.

The following month Komarov clashed with other engineers over ongoing design problems in which zero-G tests showed that the Soyuz module hatch was too small to allow the exit of a fully suited cosmonaut safely.

Komarov was selected to command the Soyuz 1, in 1967, with Yuri Gagarin as his backup cosmonaut.

As a result of the problems with the craft, the second Soyuz module which was to have carried cosmonauts to perform an extra-vehicular activity ( EVA ) to the Soyuz 1 was not launched and the mission was cut short.

After the Columbia disaster, space tourism on the Russian Soyuz program was temporarily put on hold, because Soyuz vehicles became the only available transport to the ISS.

The station was serviced by Soyuz spacecraft, Progress spacecraft and U. S. space shuttles, and was visited by astronauts and cosmonauts from 12 different nations.

It was originally planned that the ports would connect to 7. 5 tonne modules derived from the Soyuz spacecraft.