Re: Soyuz-1 terminal velocity

From: Darren J Longhorn (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 12/27/04


Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:24:08 +0000

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:47:17 +0000, Ste Kearney
<stek1961no@spammac.com> wrote:

>Reading Leonov again, he seems to contradict himself with the details
>of this flight. First he says the plan was to 'dock' Soyuz-1 and
>Soyuz-2, then in the same paragraph he says the transfer of cosmonauts
>would be by spacewalk. We assume the Soviets had no docking
>arrangements on Soyuz capsules then?

The craft were designed to dock, but there was no facility for
internal crew transfer.