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{|cellspacing=5 border="0" Crew code name—Baykal Landing crew—Boris Volynov Crew code name—Baykal Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 carried out the first docking between manned Soviet spacecraft. Soyuz 4 played the active role in the docking. After docking, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 were described as comprising the first multimodular space station. More importantly, however, this was a test of rendezvous and docking and EVA procedures, with implications for the manned lunar program. Yeliseyev and Khrunov transferred by EVA from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4. The two craft remained docked for 4 hr, 35 min. Afanaseyev states that, after Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5, two additional Soyuz craft were to have rendezvoused and docked to prepare for manned lunar landing
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 * width="150px" |Soyuz 5
 * width="405px" |January 15-18, 1969
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 * width="555px" colspan="2" |Launch crew—Boris Volynov, Yevgeni Khrunov, and Alexei Yeliseyev
 * width="555px" colspan="2" |Launch crew—Boris Volynov, Yevgeni Khrunov, and Alexei Yeliseyev