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  Soyuz 5
It was piloted by Commander Boris Volynov and carried flight engineers Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov as crew to be transferred to the Soyuz 4 for reentry.
Volynov remained behind on the Soyuz 5, and returned to Earth in a truly remarkable re-entry.
There was one final problem in store for Volynov when the parachute cables partially tangled and soft-landing rockets failed, resulting in a harder than usual impact which broke his teeth.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Soyuz_5.html   (411 words)

  
  Boris Volynov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Russian: Борис Валентинович Волынов; born December 18, 1934 in Irkutsk) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21.
He is a graduate of the Soviet Military Engineering Academy and held the rank of Colonel in the Soviet Air Force.
Boris Volynov was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union (January 22, 1969) and Order of Lenin.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boris_Volynov   (383 words)

  
 Soyuz 5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Soyuz 5 was a Soyuz spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on January 15, 1969 that docked with Soyuz 4 in orbit.
The Soyuz 5 was piloted by Commander Boris Volynov and carried flight engineers Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov as crew to be transferred to the Soyuz 4 for reentry.
Volynov remained behind on the Soyuz 5, and returned to Earth in a truly remarkable re-entry.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soyuz_5   (833 words)

  
 June 2002, Flight Journal - "Soyuz 5's Flaming Return"
Boris Volynov's near-disaster had occurred in January, 1969, at the end of a Soyuz-5 flight.
Aboard Soyuz-5, cosmonaut Boris Volynov was returning to Earth alone, after his ship had docked in space with a Soyuz-4 and transferred two of his crew to the other vehicle.
Volynov had quickly realized out that he would die in the mid-winter cold if he stayed where he was, so he set out on foot towards a distant vertical line of smoke in the sky.
www.jamesoberg.com /062002flightjournalsoyuz5.html   (1866 words)

  
 Soyuz 5's flaming return Flight Journal - Find Articles
But for Russian cosmonaut Boris Volynov, his brush with a fiery death on a space flight 33 years ago was such a state secret that it was made public only recently.
But Boris Volynov, alone among Earth's space voyagers, had a straightforward view into the flames because his spacecraft had been incorrectly aligned, and the flames washed over the less insulated, or weaker, end of his vehicle.
Boris Volynov's near disaster happened in January 1969; aboard Soyuz 5, he was returning to Earth alone after his ship had docked in space with a Soyuz 4 and transferred two of its crew to it.
findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3897/is_200206/ai_n9085016   (926 words)

  
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Boris Volynov spoke into the radio as his spacecraft hurtled backward toward Earth in January 1969 after a historic docking mission.
Volynov was only 34, a Russian cosmonaut, the first Jew in space, a pioneer in the great space race with the United States.
Volynov was rescued in the snowy Ural Mountains.
www.sptimes.com /2006/06/08/news_pf/Southpinellas/A_cosmonaut_s_once_se.shtml   (796 words)

  
 Volynov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boris Volynov was born in Irkutsk, finishing school in Prokopyevsk, Siberia.
Boris is an old-timer in the cosmonaut team which he joined at the same time that Yuri Gagarin did.
Boris remembered that the trees were leafless when he walked into the isolation chamber and its door closed on him.
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Soyuz4-5/Volynov.htm   (595 words)

  
 Volynov
Volynov is the leading candidate to command the next flight, and has already been a back-up four times, but Marshal Rudenko keeps blocking his selection for flight (Volynov is a Jew).
Volynov conducts tests in a pressurised suit to see if it is possible to go from the SA capsule to the BO living module in a two-man crew transfer scenario.
All of the cosmonauts except Volynov will be present for the historic launch of the first space station., the first crew to the station, and the N1 launch planned for 1 May. Kamanin has an argument with the cosmonauts on the necessity of working out on the KTF trainer during the mission.
www.astronautix.com /astros/volynov.htm   (10948 words)

  
 Volynov
The symbology lead Volynov to joke that he 'was being raped' when the hard docking was accomplished.
Volynov remained behind to live through the most unbelievable re-entry in the history of spaceflight.
Due to a failure of the soft-landing rockets the landing was harder than usual and Volynov broke his teeth.
www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/mwade/astros/volynov.htm   (1802 words)

  
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Cosmonaut Boris Volynov was returning to Earth alone, after his ship had docked in space with Soyuz-4 and transferred two of his crew to the other vehicle.
For Volynov, doing nothing was the hardest task in his life, so he continued making reports into his voice recorder and writing notes in his flight log.
Volynov had quickly decided that he would die in the mid-winter cold if he waited for rescue, so he had set out on foot [towards a distant line of smoke in the sky].
www.jamesoberg.com /soyuzsecret.html   (1827 words)

  
 Boris Volynov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Boris Valentinovich Volynov (born December 18, 1934 in Irkutsk)is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21.
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 !! L5Development.com - Space History for January 15
Soyuz 5 was launched 15 January 1969 piloted by Commander Boris Volynov and carrying flight engineers Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov.
Yeliseyev and Khrunov transferred to Soyuz 4 for their return to Earth; Volynov remained behind for what was undoubtedly the most unbelievable re-entry ever survived: The Soyuz service module failed to separate after the retrorockets fired.
Volynov's brush with fiery death was a state secret so deep that it only came out recently: When he didn't die from the near disaster, the next order of business was to pretend it had never happened, and Volynov was ordered to NOT tell the story.
l5development.com /i_resource/history/DayInHistory.php?d=0115   (1661 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Terror in Space | Mishaps of the Space Age: 1969
As part of the reentry procedure at the end of his flight aboard Soyuz 5, cosmonaut Boris Volynov had to jettison his spacecraft's extra modules.
Volynov lost control, and the Soyuz 5 began to tumble in space.
When ground searchers finally found the wrecked spacecraft, Volynov was not there.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/mir/1969.html   (149 words)

  
 The flight of Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5
The launch took place as expected at 0704.57 UT (11) on 15 January 1969 from launch complex 1 (the "Gagarin Pad") with Boris Volynov, Alexei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov onboard.
Boris Volynov could see the antennas on the solar panels and realized that the instrument module was till attached.
Upon landing the parachute had problems to deploy properly, but the craft landed, and the landing shock was such that Volynov was thrown across the cabin and broke some of his front teeth.
www.svengrahn.pp.se /trackind/soyuz45/soyuz45.html   (2574 words)

  
 “House Warming” In Orbit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Inside the orbital compartment the cosmonauts, helping each other, and assisted by spacecraft commander Boris Volynov, put on their space suits.
Then the air-tight hatch between the re-entry capsule and the orbital compartment was locked and the latter was depressurised.
Following the instructions of spacecraft commander Boris Volynov, engineer-researcher Yevgeni Khrunov was the first to leave the compartment.
www.zarya.info /Diaries/Soyuz4-5/Housewarm.htm   (469 words)

  
 Volynov | First Cosmonauts | VideoCosmos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
"Soyuz-3" backup pilot Volynov B. 7 September 1976.
Meeting of the crew "Soyuz-21" ("Salyut-5") - Zholobov V.M. and Volynov B. July 1974.
Cosmonaut Volynov B. at the walk at Exhibition of Economic Achievements (VDNKh).
www.videocosmos.com /first_cosmonauts/volynov.shtm   (133 words)

  
 Boris Volynov - Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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PETERSBURG - ''Object is rotating.'' Boris Volynov spoke into the radio as his spacecraft hurtled backward toward Earth in January 1969 after a historic docking mission.
There is no doubt that net business for Boris Volynov shop fronts have on absolute-globe stores Boris Volynov businesses is the operational savings that come from net sales.
business.best-resource-links-3.info /1934/Boris_Volynov   (739 words)

  
 OPS-3 (Salyut-5) space station
The OPS-3, announced as Salyut-5 after its launch, was equipped with a new radio system, which allowed it to transmit data to the ground in real time.
On July 6, 1976, the crew comprised of commander Boris Volynov and flight engineer Vitaliy Zholobov was launched toward the OPS-3 onboard the Soyuz-21 spacecraft.
Volynov (top photo) and Zholobov shown inside the habiation section of the OPS-3 (Salyut-5) space station.
www.russianspaceweb.com /almaz_ops3.html   (671 words)

  
 Jan. 15, 1969: White-Knuckle Ride
Unfortunately for Volynov, that position was nose forward into the air stream, leaving only the light metal entry hatch between him and certain death.
The parachute cables partially snagged as Volynov deployed his chutes for landing, and one of the soft-landing rockets also failed.
Volynov completed his mission by walking several kilometers through the snow until he found a peasant's cottage somewhere on the steppes of Central Asia.
www.wired.com /science/discoveries/news/2007/01/72465   (336 words)

  
 Voskhod-3, the source of the rumor mill of March 1966?
Voskhod 3 was planned as a two-week to month-long, two-man flight to coincide with the party Congress scheduled for March 1966.
Boris Volynov and Georgi Shonin were scheduled to fly for 19 days to an orbit at 175-500 km at 65 deg (2).
In the middle of January 1966 the hope was to launch Voskhod-3 in early March and the dog-carrying precursor in the first half of February.
www.svengrahn.pp.se /histind/Mar1966/Mar1966.htm   (1408 words)

  
 : Lee Saunders : Global Timeline : 1928 :
Soviet cosmonaut Vasili Lazarev was born in the Kursk Region of Russia.
Lazarev served as second back-up to Boris Yegorov for the Voskhod 1 mission on the 12th October 1964.
Served as back-up for Boris Volynov of the Soyuz 5 mission on the 15th January 1969.
www.leesaunders.co.uk /html/global/year/1928.php   (265 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Voskhod 1 Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This was necessary because, unlike the Vostok, the crew lands with the Voskhod descent module.
On board were three cosmonauts: Vladimir Komarov, who piloted the craft; Konstantin Feoktistov, an engineer who had been part of the Sputnik and Vostok design teams; and Boris Yegorov, a doctor.
Much of the mission was devoted to biomedical research and to study of how a multi-disciplinary team could work together in space.
www.ipedia.com /voskhod_1.html   (323 words)

  
 Volynov? - collectSPACE: Messages
I've been planning on writing to Cosmonaut Boris Volynov but when I was browsing a Russian language "Who's Who in Aviation" website, they gave a date of death for Boris Volynov:
He confirmed me that Boris Volynov is death about a month ago.
During the conference he said that for first group of 1960 only 5 cosmonauts are still alive of the 12 who flew in space.
www.collectspace.com /ubb/Forum38/HTML/000339.html   (421 words)

  
 Space Today Online -- Man In Space Firsts -- table of contents
They orbited the Moon ten times, then headed back to Earth where they plunged into the atmosphere at 24,696 miles per hour, a speed no human had reached before.
Vladimir Shatalov in January 1969 flew in Soyuz 4 while Boris Volynov, Alexei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov went to space in Soyuz 5.
Volynov flew down to Earth in Soyuz 5.
www.spacetoday.org /History/ManInSpaceFirsts/RideOfYourLife.html   (502 words)

  
 Cosmonaut Autographs - Group-Signed Items   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This cover is signed by (top to bottom) Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, and Yevgeny Khnunov.
In 1969, Shatalov flew Soyuz 4 to a rendezvous and docking with Soyuz 5.
Aboard Soyuz 5 were Volynov, Khrunov, and Alexei Yeliseyev.
members.aol.com /kss71/autogs/group.htm   (292 words)

  
 NSSDC Master Catalog Display: Spacecraft
It co-orbited with Soyuz 4, they both made orbital corrections, and then during the 34th orbit of Soyuz 4 and the 18th orbit of Soyuz 5, the automatic docking system brought the ships to within 99 m of one another.
Manual orientation, orbit corrections, scientific and technological experiements, biomedical investigations, geological and gegraphical observations, observations of celestial luminaries, TV reporting, still and moving photography, and navigational measurements were accomplished during the joined flight.
Soyuz 5 with Volynov on board landed 200 km southeast of Kustanai.
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov /database/MasterCatalog?sc=1969-005A   (269 words)

  
 Boris Volynov
Boris Volynov is a cosmonaut who was born on December 18, 1934, in Irhutsk, Siberia.
The crew docked with the Soyuz 4 and two members transferred over to Soyuz 4.
Volynov made a second flight aboard the Salyut 5 space station.
www.windows.ucar.edu /tour/link=/people/astronauts/volynov.html   (97 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Star City: Berkeley for Cosmonauts
Boris Volynov, a legendary Russian cosmonaut who started his training with Gagarin, made two spaceflights and has maintained his active cosmonauts status for 30 years, said the center's evolution has its pros and cons.
On the down side, he said, Russian experience is devalued.
While Klimuk expressed his "full confidence in the future of the center", it has been affected by Russias economic hardships.
www.space.com /news/spacehistory/star_city_000411.html   (1223 words)

  
 The Russians' Turn - TIME
As he circled the earth in his Soyuz 4 spacecraft last week, Russian Cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov looked down toward central Asia to watch a tiny billow of flame and smoke.
It was Soyuz 5, on its way with Cosmonauts Boris Volynov, Evgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Eliseev.
Khrunov and Eliseev entered the work compartment of their two-room ship and sealed it off from Volynov in the crew's quarters.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,900588,00.html   (703 words)

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