Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Soyuz 4 (Russian: Союз 4 Union 4) was launched on 14 January 1969 carrying cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov on his first flight. The aim of the mission was to dock with Soyuz 5 transfer two crew members from that spacecraft and return to Earth. The previous three Soyuz flights were also docking attempts but all had failed for various reasons.The radio call sign of the crew was Amur while Soyuz 5 was Baikal.
