Soyuz 2

This article is about the 1968 mission. For the mission identified by NASA as ISS Soyuz 2, see Soyuz TM-32. For the rocket, see Soyuz-2 (rocket).

Soyuz 2

Mission type	Test flight
Operator	Soviet space program
Orbits completed	48
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type	Soyuz 7K-OK
Manufacturer	Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1
Launch mass	6,450 kilograms (14,220 lb)
Start of mission
Launch date	October 25, 1968, 09:00 (1968-10-25UTC09Z) UTC
Rocket	Soyuz
Launch site	Baikonur 1/5
End of mission
Landing date	October 28, 1968, 07:51 (1968-10-28UTC07:52Z) UTC;
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	191 kilometres (119 mi)
Apogee	229 kilometres (142 mi)
Inclination	51.70 degrees
Period	88.60 minutes

Soyuz 2 (Russian: Союз 2, Union 2) was an uncrewed spacecraft in the Soyuz family intended to be the target of a docking maneuver by the manned Soyuz 3 spacecraft. It was intended to be the first docking of a manned spacecraft in the Soviet space program. Although the two craft approached closely, the docking did not take place and the first successful Soviet docking of manned spacecraft took place in the joint Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 mission.

Mission parameters

• Mass: 6,450 kg (14,220 lb)
• Perigee: 191 km (119 mi)
• Apogee: 229 km (142 mi)
• Inclination: 51.70°
• Period: 88.60 min

Further reading

• Luna Cornea, Number 14, January/April 1998, p. 58,
• The Fabricated Cosmonaut and the Nonexistent Prophecy, Luis Alfonso Gamez. Skeptical Inquirer Volume 30, number 5 (September/October 2006) p12.

External links

• Brown University News Service Artists mix fact and fantasy in False Witness exhibition at Bell Gallery.