Soyuz 7K-OK

The manned Soyuz spacecraft can be classified into design generations. Soyuz 1 through Soyuz 11 (1967-1971) were first-generation vehicles, carrying a crew of up to three without spacesuits and distinguished from those following by their bent solar panels and their use of the Igla automatic docking navigation system, which required special radar antennas. The first unmanned test of this version was Cosmos-133, launched on Nov. 28, 1966. This first generation was called Soyuz 7K-OK and encompassed the original Soyuz and Salyut 1 Soyuz. Variations within it were primarily docking fixtures; the first nine examples had no internal hatch and crew transfer had to take place by means of spacewalks, employing spacesuits kept in the orbital module, which functioned as an airlock, as done on Soyuz 4 and 5. This versions was used up to 1971.

Unmanned and test missions

*Cosmos 133
*Cosmos 140
*Cosmos 186
*Cosmos 188
*Cosmos 212
*Cosmos 213
*Cosmos 238
*Soyuz 2

Manned missions

*Soyuz 1
*Soyuz 3
*Soyuz 4
*Soyuz 5
*Soyuz 6
*Soyuz 7
*Soyuz 8
*Soyuz 9

External links

* [http://en.rian.ru/russia/20061018/54922208.html Russia New Russian spaceship will be able to fly to Moon - space corp]
* [http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/news/news-2006/public_07-01.html RSC Energia: Concept Of Russian Manned Space Navigation Development]
*Mir Hardware Heritage
**David S.F. Portree, " [http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/references/r-documents-mirhh.htm Mir Hardware Heritage] ", NASA RP-1357, 1995
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* [http://www.astronautix.com/craftfam/soyuz.htm Information on Soyuz spacecraft]
* [http://www.io.com/~o_m/ssh/astp/astp.htm OMWorld's ASTP Docking Trainer Page]
* [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/structure/elements/soyuz/spacecraft_detail.html NASA - Russian Soyuz TMA Spacecraft Details]
* [http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070628_private_moonshot.html Space Adventures circum-lunar mission - details]