Cosmonauts of Soyuz 4 & 5 and Space Station

Soyuz 4 launched on 1969-01-14 with a crew of 1 - Vladimir Shatalov. Soyuz 5 launched on 1969-01-15 with a crew of 3 - Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, and Yevgeny Khrunov. The 2 ships docked on Jan .. Read more »16, and during the 4-hour docking, cosmonauts Yeliseyev and Khrunov transferred from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4. Soyuz 4 landed on Jan 17th with a crew of 3 (Shatalov, Yeliseyev, and Khrunov). Soyuz 5 landed on Jan 18 with a crew of 1 (Volynov).

Country:	USSR
Type:	Postal blocks
Series:	First Experimental Space Station
Nominal:	50 k
Year:	1969
Material:	Chalk surfaced
Size:	95 x 68 mm
Perforation:	Simulated
Mintage:	750,000