Soyuz-A

Soyuz-A
Specifications
Soyuz 7K manned spacecraft concept (1963)

Manufacturer	OKB-1
Country of origin	Soviet Union
Applications	Carry up to three cosmonauts to lunar orbit.

Regime	Low Earth Medium Earth Circumlunar

Production
Status	Cancelled
Launched	None

Related spacecraft
Derivatives	Soyuz 7K-OK (first Soyuz generation to fly manned)

Sergei Korolev initially promoted the Soyuz A-B-V circumlunar complex (7K-9K-11K) concept (also known as L1) in which a two-man craft Soyuz 7K would rendezvous with other components (9K and 11K) in Earth orbit to assemble a lunar excursion vehicle, the components being delivered by the proven R-7 rocket. ^[1]^[2]

Besides the Soyuz 7K spacecraft, the complex would feature a Soyuz 9K booster and a Soyuz 11K tanker with twin whip antennas.

The 7K would have been equipped with cameras and sensors to study the lunar surface during the flyby, at a distance of 1,000 to 20,000 km from the Moon's surface. Total flight time would have been 7 to 8 days.

Soyuz 7K-9K-11K circumlunar concept. The drawing shows Soyuz 7K (right), Soyuz 9K booster, and Soyuz 11K tanker with twin whip antennas (left)

References

↑ "Soyuz A". astronautix.com. Mark Wade. 2001-10-31. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
↑ Pike, John. "L-1 Lunar Circumnavigation Mission". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 2009-06-30.

Soyuz programme

Main topics

Uncrewed
missions

Soyuz 7K-OK	Kosmos 133 Kosmos 140 Kosmos 186 Kosmos 188 Kosmos 212 Kosmos 213 Kosmos 238 Soyuz 2

Soyuz 7K-L1/L1S (Zond lunar programme)	Kosmos 146 Kosmos 154 Zond 1967A Zond 1967B Zond 4 Zond 1968A Zond 1968B Zond 5 Zond 6 Zond 1969A Zond-M 1 Zond-M 2 Zond 7 Zond 8 Zond 9 Zond 10

Soyuz 7K-T	Kosmos 496 Kosmos 573 Kosmos 613 Kosmos 656 Soyuz 32 (uncrewed landing) Soyuz 34 (uncrewed launch)

Soyuz 7K-TM	Kosmos 638 Kosmos 672

Soyuz 7K-S	Kosmos 670 Kosmos 772 Kosmos 869

Soyuz 7K-T/A9	Soyuz 20

Soyuz-T ("Soyuz 7K-ST")	Kosmos 1001 Kosmos 1074 Soyuz T-1

Soyuz-TM ("Soyuz 7K-STM")	Soyuz TM-1

Crewed
missions

Past

Soyuz 7K-OK (1967–1970)	1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Soyuz 7K-OKS (1971)	10 11

Soyuz 7K-T (1973–1981)	12 13 14 15 17 18a 18 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 (crewed launch) 33 34 (crewed landing) 35 36 37 38 39 40

Soyuz 7K-TM (1974–1976)	16 19 22

Soyuz-T (1976–1986)	T-2 T-3 T-4 T-5 T-6 T-7 T-8 T-9 T-10-1 T-10 T-11 T-12 T-13 T-14 T-15

Soyuz-TM (1986–2003)	TM-2 TM-3 TM-4 TM-5 TM-6 TM-7 TM-8 TM-9 TM-10 TM-11 TM-12 TM-13 TM-14 TM-15 TM-16 TM-17 TM-18 TM-19 TM-20 TM-21 TM-22 TM-23 TM-24 TM-25 TM-26 TM-27 TM-28 TM-29 TM-30 TM-31 TM-32 TM-33 TM-34

Soyuz-TMA (2003–2012)	TMA-1 TMA-2 TMA-3 TMA-4 TMA-5 TMA-6 TMA-7 TMA-8 TMA-9 TMA-10 TMA-11 TMA-12 TMA-13 TMA-14 TMA-15 TMA-16 TMA-17 TMA-18 TMA-19 TMA-20 TMA-21 TMA-22

Soyuz-TMA-M (2010–2015)	TMA-01M TMA-02M TMA-03M TMA-04M TMA-05M TMA-06M TMA-07M TMA-08M TMA-09M TMA-10M TMA-11M TMA-12M TMA-13M TMA-14M TMA-15M TMA-16M TMA-17M

Current

Soyuz-TMA-M (2015)	TMA-18M TMA-19M

Planned

Soyuz-TMA-M (2015–2016)	TMA-20M

Soyuz-MS (2016– )	MS-01 MS-02 MS-03 MS-04 MS-05

Soyuz variants

Early programme	Sever Soyuz 7K Soyuz 9K Soyuz 11K Soyuz-VI Soyuz P Soyuz PPK Soyuz R Soyuz 7K-TK

7K series	Soyuz 7K-OK Soyuz 7K-L1 Soyuz 7K-LOK Soyuz 7K-TK Soyuz 7K-OKS Soyuz 7K-T Soyuz 7K-T/A9 Soyuz 7K-TM Soyuz 7K-MF6

Later series	Soyuz-S Soyuz-T Soyuz-TM Soyuz-TMA/Soyuz TMA-M Soyuz-MS

Progress	Progress 7K-TG Progress-M Progress-M1 Progress-M2 Progress-MS

Other derivatives	Aelita Gamma

Soviet and Russian government manned space programs

Active	Soyuz ISS (joint) Russian Orbital Segment

In development	Federatsiya OPSEK

Past	Vostok Voskhod Salyut Almaz (incorporated into Salyut program) / TKS Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (joint) Mir Shuttle-Mir programme (joint)

Cancelled	Zond (7K-L1) (Moon flyby) N1-L3 (Moon landing) LK-700 (alternate Moon landing) Zvezda (moonbase) TMK (Mars/Venus flyby) Spiral Zvezda Energia / Buran Zarya MAKS Kliper

List of Soviet manned space missions List of Russian manned space missions

Manned lunar spacecraft

Orbiters	Apollo Command/Service Module LK-1 / LK-700 (VA) Zond (Soyuz 7K-L1) LOK (Soyuz 7K-L3) Orion PPTS (Federatsiya)

Landers	Apollo Lunar Module Lunniy Korabl Altair

See also	Moon landing conspiracy theories List of lunar probes List of artificial objects on the Moon List of missions to the Moon proposed

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Soyuz-A

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