Soyuz 6, 7 & 8 In Soviet Space Flights (1969)

Russia. Story about Soviet space flights of Soyuz 6, 7 and 8. People queuing and going into Lenin Mausoleum in Red Square. MS Pan along faces of cosmonauts / astronauts visiting Mausoleum. GV Along wide street in Moscow. VS Poor quality taken from television tube. We see Soyuz 6 crew, Valeri Kubasav and Georgi Shonin, leaving transfer van, climbing gantry and entering rocket. MS Soyuz 6 blast off. CS Russian newspaper headlines telling of space flights. MS From T.V. screen again the three man crew of Soyuz 7 leave transfer van. They are Anatoly Filipchenko, Vladislav Volkov and Victor Gorbatko. They all salute and wave from gantry. LS Soyuz 7 lift off and tilt up with it. MS Soyuz 8 crew, Vladimir Shatalov and Alexei Yeliseyev leaving transfer van, saluting and waving from gantry. LS Soyuz 8 lift off. VS Poor quality interiors of the spacemen in capsule during flight. VS More newspapers acclaiming the flights, people in streets read the news. Good slow pan up Cosmonaut Memorial. Note: old records also named Alexandrovich Shatalov. (Dupe. Neg.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.