Soyuz 6
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soyuz-6-296-15783550
title:
Soyuz 6
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Soyuz 6 was part of a joint October, 1969, mission with Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 that saw the three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time, carrying a total of seven cosmonauts. The crew of Georgy Shonin and Valeri Kubasov were meant to take high-quality movie photography of the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 8 docking, but the rendezvous systems on all three spacecraft failed. It is still not known exactly what the actual problem was, but it is often quoted as being a helium pressurisation integrity
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Crewed flight of the Soyuz programme
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_6
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2022-12-27T20:33:31Z
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