On Oct. 12, 1964, the Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1, a 24-hour crewed mission that achieved several "firsts" for human spaceflight.
The This was the first time that a spacecraft carried more than one person into orbit, with three cosmonauts packed inside the spacecraft. Only two cosmonauts were originally supposed to fly on this mission, but Soviet politicians pressured the space program to add one more. This left no room for spacesuits on board, so this also became the first spaceflight without spacesuits. Two of the crewmembers, an engineer and a doctor, became the first civilians to go to space.
The This was the first time that a spacecraft carried more than one person into orbit, with three cosmonauts packed inside the spacecraft. Only two cosmonauts were originally supposed to fly on this mission, but Soviet politicians pressured the space program to add one more. This left no room for spacesuits on board, so this also became the first spaceflight without spacesuits. Two of the crewmembers, an engineer and a doctor, became the first civilians to go to space.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:03In 1964, the Soviet Union launched Boscod 1,
00:06a 24-hour crewed mission that achieved several firsts for human spaceflight.
00:10This was the first time that a spacecraft carried more than one person into orbit,
00:14with three cosmonauts packed inside the spacecraft.
00:17Only two cosmonauts were originally supposed to fly on this mission,
00:20but Soviet politicians pressured the space program to add one more.
00:23This left no room for spacesuits on board,
00:26so this also became the first spaceflight without spacesuits.
00:29Two of the crew members, an engineer and a doctor,
00:31became the first civilians to go to space.
00:34And that's what happened on this day in space.
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