Posted on March 13, 2019
The original Soyuz 9 mission was planned to fly two Soyuz spacecraft in the August to September 1970 time frame for a rendezvous and docking; however, at the end of December 1969 the communist party bosses ordered that the mission be changed to a single spacecraft on a 20 day long duration flight to be launched in April 1970 to coincide with Lenin’s birthday.
Andriyan Nikolayev Credit Spacefacts.deVitali Sevastiyanov Credit Spacefacts.deThe wedding ceremony of cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova & Andriyan Nikolayev
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P3-Soyuz 9 rollout
P2- Sevastiyanov Vitali Credit- www.spacefacts.de
p1- Andriyan Nikolayev Credit- www.spacefacts.de