Voskhod, Card No 15 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)

The Race Into Space (Brooke Bond, 1971)

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Card No. 15: Voskhod

12th October 1964

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This manned spacecraft filled the gap between Vostok and Soyuz.

With cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov in Voskhod 1 on Oct. 12, 1964 were a doctor Boris Yegorov and a scientist Konstantin Feoktistov. They completed 16 orbits in a flight lasting 24 hours 17 minutes 3 seconds.

Spacesuits were not worn and the capsule's parachute landing was cushioned by retro-rockets ignited just before ground contact.

Voskhod 2, launched on March 18, 1965, carried Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov. Both wore spacesuits allowing Leonov to make history's first "space walk" of about 10 minutes duration from an extensible airlock. Their flight lasted 26 hours 2 minutes 17 seconds.

Cosmonaut Belyaev, aged 44, died in Moscow on Jan. 10, 1970, following an operation for a stomach ulcer, from peritonitis.