Cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, who survived Soyuz splashdown, diesJune 13, 2024 — Soviet-era cosmonaut Vyacheslav Zudov, whose failed docking with a Russian space station ended with the first and only emergency splashdown in a Soyuz spacecraft, has died at the age of 82.
Zudov's death on Wednesday (June 12) was reported by Roscosmos, Russia's federal space corporation.
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-061324a-cosmonaut-vyacheslav-zudov-obituary.htmlSoyuz 23: How two cosmonauts almost died after landing back on EarthBy Doug Adler | Published: October 16, 2021 | Last updated on May 18, 2023
Forty-five years ago, an unplanned splashdown forced two cosmonauts to battle hazardous weather that left their capsule bobbing in a frozen lake for nearly half a day.
A helicopter (out of frame to the upper left) hoists the Soyuz 23 capsule and its waterlogged parachute from an icy lake. Cosmonauts Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvenskyk had spent some nine hours within the capsule after an unintended splashdown and inclement weather left them out of reach of recovery crews. Roscosmoshttps://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/soyuz-23-how-two-cosmonauts-almost-died-after-landing-back-on-earth/A Watery Yarn: The Unlucky Voyage of Soyuz 23 (Part 1)by Ben Evans
(...) On launch morning, 14 October, little seemed to go well. The bus broke down on the way to the launch pad and then, after an otherwise flawless liftoff at 8:40 p.m. Moscow Time, high winds aloft caused the rocket to veer off-course and the crew narrowly avoided having to execute an abort. They achieved orbital insertion safely—albeit lower than planned—and ultimately established themselves at an altitude of around 168 miles (270 km), preparatory to docking late on the evening of 15 October. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2013/10/26/a-watery-yarn-the-unlucky-voyage-of-soyuz-23-part-1/A Watery Yarn: The Unlucky Voyage of Soyuz 23 (Part 2)by Ben Evans, October 27, 2013
Cosmonauts Zudov (right) and Rozhdestvensky spent 1.5 hours trying to writhe and cut themselves out of their pressure suits. Photo Credit: Joachim Becker / SpaceFacts.de(...) Progress to reach Zudov and Rozhdestvensky was agonisingly slow and many spectators doubted that the men would still be alive by the time they were extracted from the descent module. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2013/10/27/a-watery-yarn/https://x.com/katlinegrey/status/1801209705706242373https://x.com/spacemen1969/status/1802595784158073213https://spacemen1969.blogspot.com/2024/06/disparition-du-cosmonaute-vyacheslav.html3:02 PM · Jun 18, 2024
https://x.com/ASE_Astronauts/status/1803050543322939621Good Bye on the last Flight...
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