Key facts
- Mission type
- Crewed mission
- Operator
- OKB-1
- Cospar id
- 1965-022A
- Mission duration
- 1 day, 2 hours, 2 minutes, 17 seconds
- Spacecraft
- Voskhod-3KD No.4
- Manufacturer
- Experimental Design Bureau OKB-1
- Launch mass
- 5,682 kilograms (12,527 lb)
- Members
- Pavel Belyayev , Alexei Leonov
- Callsign
- Алмаз ( Almaz – "Diamond")
- Eva duration
- 12 minutes, 9 seconds
- Launch date
- 18 March 1965, 07:00:00 ( 1965-03-18UTC07Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod 11A57
- Launch site
- Baikonur 1/5
- Landing date
- 19 March 1965, 09:02:17 ( 1965-03-19UTC09:02:18Z ) UTC
- Landing site
- 59°34′N 55°28′E / 59.567°N 55.467°E / 59.567; 55.467
- Reference system
- Geocentric
- Regime
- Low Earth
- Perigee altitude
- 167 kilometres (104 mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Voskhod 2 (Russian: Восход-2, lit. 'Sunrise-2') was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock. It established another milestone in space exploration when Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave the spacecraft in a specialised spacesuit to conduct a 12-minute spacewalk.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Voskhod 2” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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