[FPSPACE] Soyuz 6 and the N-1?

[Mark Wade]

 According to Kamanin's diaries, as of 10 February 1969: "...Soyuz s/n 14 is
set for a solo seven day mission in April-May. 15 and 16 with 5 cosmonauts
aboard will fly a 7 day mission in August-September, remaining docked for
three days...."

By 26 April the plan had already shifted to a three-spacecraft flight:
"...Spacecraft s/n 14, 15, and 16 are to fly in August 1969..."

http://www.astronautix.com/flights/soyuz6.htm

In regard to your earlier question on L3 parking lunar orbits:

"...In the original 1964 N1-L3 lunar mission scenario, the LOK, the LK lunar
lander, and the Block D deceleration stage would be inserted into lunar
orbit by a burn of the Block D. Trim maneuvers would bring the assembly into
a 20 km x 100 km orbit by orbit 14...."

In the final scenario:

"...During a 3.5 day translunar coast the Block D stage would perform two
mid-course corrections. It then would brake the LOK/LK/Block D stack into an
equatorial elliptical lunar orbit. The Block D would be restarted twice to
adjust the orbit, first to a circular 110 km orbit, then to bring the
pericynthion down to 14 km. The Block D could restarted for up to 4 days in
lunar orbit. ..."

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/soy7klok.htm

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lk.htm

Sources:

Vetrov, G S, *S. P. Korolev i evo delo*, Nauka, Moscow, 1998.

Filin, V M, *Vosplominaniya o lunnom korable*, Izdatelstvo 'Kultura', 1992.


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> From: "Phillip Clark" <phillipclark at btinternet.com>
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> I recall that shortly after the "troika" flights of Soyuz 6-7-8 it was
> reported that Soyuz 6 with its welding experiment was originally planned for
> around May 1969 as a "solo" mission, but it was delayed because of work
> underway on the lunar programme.
>
> It has not been reported, as far as I know, how close Soyuz 6 came to
> launch earlier in 1969 - is there any information about this "out there"?
> I was wondering whether Soyuz 6 being rolled out to the pad in the
> April-May-June timeline for its solo flight might have been the origin of
> the rumours of a manned Soyuz being prepared in parallel with the unmanned
> N-1 launch in July.   Just a thought which is possibly completely wrong!
>
> Phillip Clark
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