Made for home use and sold in Moscow’s department store, this short film is an extract from a Soviet newsreel series entitled “Man in space/Человек вышел в космос ” produced in 1961-1973. This one was produced in 1969/1970 by CenterNauchFilm. It showcases the first successful mission of in-orbit docking and the first temporary space station of the Soyuz program – Soyuz-4 and 5.
It includes the March 1965 spaceflight of Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov during the Voskhod 2 mission, Voskhod 3 spaceship.
Director: Kosenko G.O. Cameramen : V. Afanasiev, N. Rafikov, N. Shumov, V. Suvorov.
We can see Leonov in a sensory deprivation training tank, in a low pressure chamber ; training on a ballistic flight Tu-104 flying training platform airplane. Yuri Gagarin is present among the scientist team on the pad. ; Main mission display and telemetry ; Return to the Baikonur spaceport. ; Press-conference ; Return to Moscow ; Meeting the secretary general of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin, member of the council of ministers of USSR, at the tarmac. Tsyolkovski memorial and the press-conference.
0:03 Card: It was to be established whether a human can live and work in space
:20-1:11 Pavel Belyaev , Alexei Leonov at the Baïkonur spaceport : pre-launch checks , final fitting of the spacesuits at the cosmonaut’s hut; footage from within the spaceship before launch Shot of the interior of the spaceship and cosmonauts.
0:43 Card:Ready for spaceflight- Belyaev and Leonov
1:12 Card : Historical space launch in march 1965 during which the first-ever spacewalk was performed
1:16 Footage from the spaceship during the flight. Cosmonauts working. View down towards Earth.
1:45 Card : Alexei Leonov is preparing to go through airlocks for his spacewalk »
1:51-3:09 External cameras filming Alexei Leonov’s spacewalk.
2:32 Card : Leonov and the spaceship were orbiting together at 28000 km/h
3:09 Interior of the spaceship, Leonov and Belyaev
3:22-3:32 Yuri Gagarin at the RKA Mission Control Center(TsUP) , Ground control mission specialists
2:32 Interior of the spaceship again
3:39 Presumably de-orbiting burn
3:48-4:26 Landing site of the capsule, with the cosmonauts meeting the recovery team, near Perm city. Signing autographs for the recovery team. Cosmonauts skiing back from the landing site.
4:36 Cosmonauts at the Memorial to the spaceflight pioneers
4:46 Card : In January 1969 the spacewalk experience of Leonov was utilized for the assembly of the first space station
5:00 Cosmonauts training centre.
5:10 Card : To create it, we had to train for manual docking procedures
5:15 Docking simulation from within the training ship
5:30 Card : Initially the docking was aided by the automatic satellites
6:12 At the Baikonur spaceport, a launchpad with a Soyuz launcher
6:22 Card : Flight of the Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 spaceships, Cmdr. Vladimir Shatalov, and Cmdr. Boris Volynov, Soyuz-5 crew Alexei Eliseev and Evgueni Khrunov
6:30 Various footage from the Soyuz 4 and 5 docking mission, inside
7:07 … and outside
7:21 Card : Approach. And -docking!
7:23 Docking footage
7:51 Card : Thus the first space station is created
7:54 Crews meeting.
8:19 Card: Evgueni Khrunov and Alexei Yeliseev moving to the other spaceship
8:25 Animation of the experimental spacewalk, to try and use the second ship’s airlock.
8:46 Crew after the spacewalk
9:10 Card: Another milestone towards creating permanent spacestations
9:15 Various posters of artist’s impressions of the future space stations and space habitats
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