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Forum:	Soviet - Russian Space
Topic:	Soyuz 9 (1970) record duration flight

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by MSS: [B]Here are three videos about Soyuz 9 mission and its crew: <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qi1BGA01Lrc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RJuJB30Me1M?start=85" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nv53WVGB20U?start=210" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe></center>[/B][/QUOTE]
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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER>T O P I C     R E V I E W</CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>The Soyuz 9 flight, launched in June 1970 with cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov onboard, holds an interesting duration record that you don't hear about much. It was the longest manned flight that did not go to a space station. The mission duration was 17 days 16 hours, which is longer than any shuttle flight. They may have flown without spacesuits. I could not find a suited photo of the crew. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>Robert Pearlman</TD><TD>Soyuz 9 at 17 days, 16 hours, 58 minutes, 55 seconds was about an hour longer in flight than the longest space shuttle mission, STS-80, at 17 days, 15 hours, 53 minutes, 18 seconds.The Soyuz 9 crew, as the Soyuz crews before them, did not wear pressure suits. The loss of the Soyuz 11 crew to a cabin depressurization led to the advent of the Sokol series of suits worn to this day. (Coincidentally, the Soyuz 9 crew's call sign was "Sokol.")</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>Mike Dixon</TD><TD>One of my all time favourite flights. Two fine cosmonauts as well.</TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#333333"><TD valign=top>LM-12</TD><TD>The Soyuz 9 crew is in this October 1970 <A HREF="https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a13/ap13-S70-51890.jpg" TARGET=_blank>group photo</A> that you may have seen before. </TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top>MSS</TD><TD>Nikolayev and Sevastyanov were a original prime crew for Soyuz 8 (1969).Here is an interesting video about Soyuz-6/7/8 missions (in Russian only).<center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RISJ7ZoSdW8" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>

MSS

Here are three videos about Soyuz 9 mission and its crew:

LM-12

Some nice onboard footage there. Nikolayev looked pretty exhausted after landing.

Mike Dixon

They both failed to keep up their in orbit exercise schedule. The doctors weren't impressed.

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