Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Soyuz 8 (Russian: Союз 8 Union 8) was part of a joint mission with Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 7 that saw three Soyuz spacecraft in orbit together at the same time carrying a total of seven cosmonauts.The crew consisted of commander Vladimir Shatalov and flight engineer Aleksei Yeliseyev whose mission was to dock with Soyuz 7 and transfer crew as the Soyuz 4 (involving among others these two cosmonauts) and Soyuz 5 missions did.
