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The original Soyuz 11 crew, who were replaced 3 days before launch, due to medical concerns. -
The original Soyuz 11 crew, who were replaced 3 days before launch, due to medical concerns.And worth noting that with docking in orbit pretty much routine these days, multi launch missions are a LOT more practical than they were in the Apollo days.
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The original Soyuz 11 crew, who were replaced 3 days before launch, due to medical concerns.People always focus on the big N1 rocket when looking at why the USSR lost the Moon race.
But it seems to me that this deadly error was what stopped them beating Apollo 8 to the Moon.
Time lost reworking the Soyuz, and a long moratorium on crewed flight.
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The original Soyuz 11 crew, who were replaced 3 days before launch, due to medical concerns.The original Soyuz 11 crew, who were replaced 3 days before launch, due to medical concerns.
Valeri N. Kubasov, Aleksei A. Leonov, and Pyotr I. Kolodin
The replacement crew all died when the Soyuz capsule depressurised during re-entry.