Description : Television cameras recorded the entire procudure both inside and outside the ships. The combined ships were hailed in Soviet announcements as the world`s first space station. Pictures of the docked crafts revealed the spherically shaped work cabin at the far end, the bell-shaped command module (convex ablative surface facing aft, rounded truncated cone ahead) joined to the work compartment by an air lock, and the service module with its two winglike solar cell panels at the rear. Manual orientation, orbit corrections, scientific and technological experiements, biomedical investigations, geological and gegraphical observations, observations of celestial luminaries, TV reporting, still and moving photography, and navigational measurements were accomplished during the joined flight. Soyuz 5 with Volynov on board landed 200 km southeast of Kustanai.

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