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Space Rocket History #143 – The First Soyuz Automatic Docking and the Secret Plan
Space Rocket History Archive
English - August 01, 2019 15:23 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 123 ratingsScience History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Space Rocket History #142 – Venera 4
After 1957, the Soviets became accustomed to achieving “world firsts” in space accomplishments. Nevertheless, 10 years later they were not confident that they could pull off the world’s first fully automatic rendezvous and docking of two un-piloted Soyuz spacecraft. At the time the chance for success was estimated at only 50/50.