Description : Soyuz 5 was launched with a crew of three men -- Boris Volynov, Commander, Aleksey Yeliseyev, Flight Engineer, and Yevgeniy Khrunov, Research Engineer. It co-orbited with Soyuz 4, they both made orbital corrections, and then during the 34th orbit of Soyuz 4 and the 18th orbit of Soyuz 5, the automatic docking system brought the ships to within 99 m of one another. Cosmonaut Shatalov of Soyuz 4 completed the docking maneuver manually, and the two ships flew for 4 hr 35 min with completely interlocking controls, power, and telephones. During the 35th orbit of Soyuz 5, cosmonauts Khrunov and Yeliseyev passed into the orbital compartment of their ship, donned pressure suits, opened the outer hatch, and floated and used handrails to maneuver themselves to the opened hatch of Soyuz 4.

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SOYUZ 4 & SOYUZ 5 · SHATALOV, KHRUNOV, VOLYNOV & YELISEYEV · DOCKING