Voskhod

©Mark Wade

The Voskhod ("sunrise") was an enlarged version of the Vostok, and was developed to fill the void when there were delays in the Soyuz program.

The Voskhod 3 mission was initially delayed because of the near disaster with Voskhod 2. Eventually, all follow on Voskhod (3-6) missions were cancelled after the Soyuz 1 disaster.

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The Cancelled Flights

Note that there were no official crew assignments made for these four flights. The primary and backup crews listed below is purely speculative. It is correct that one of the flights would be an all female crew.

Voskhod 3
  Date: June 1966
  Crew:
    Georgi Shonin
    Boris Volynov
  Backup:
    Georgi Beregovoi
    Vladimir Shatalov

Voskhod 4
  Date: Fall 1967
  Crew:
    Georgi Beregovoi
    Georgi Katys
  Backup:
    Lev Dyomin
    Georgi Shatalov

Voskhod 5
  Date: Late 1966
  Crew:
    Valentina Ponomaryova
    Irina Solovyova
  Backup:
    Tatyana Kuznetsova
    Zhanna Yerkina

Voskhod 6
  Date: Early 1967
  Crew:
    Yevgeni Khrunov
    Anatoli Voronov
  Backup:
    Viktor Gorbatko
    Pytor Kolodin

 

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