What is Soyuz 11?
{{Use dmy dates}}[[File:Soyuz 11 crew.jpg|thumb|[[Georgy Dobrovolsky]], [[Vladislav Volkov]], and [[Viktor Patsayev]], the crew of Soyuz 11]] '''Soyuz 11''' was a manned space mission. It was the only mission to live on [[Salyut 1]], the first space station. It was a backup mission of Soyuz 10, which was failed to dock. The mission killed three men in space when it lost air pressure during re-entry of the atmosphere. They were [[Georgy Dobrovolsky]], [[Vladislav Volkov]], and [[Viktor Patsayev]]. == Crew == {{Spaceflight crew|crew1_up=[[Georgy Dobrovolsky]]|crew2_up=[[Vladislav Volkov]]|crew3_up=[[Viktor Patsayev]]|flights1_up=Only|flights2_up=Second and last|flights3_up=Only|position1=Commander|position2=Flight Engineer|position3=Test Engineer}} === Backup crew === {{Spaceflight crew|terminology=Cosmonaut|position1=Commander|crew1_up=[[Alexey Gubarev]]|position2=Flight Engineer|crew2_up=[[Vitaliy Sevastyanov]]|position3=Test Engineer|crew3_up=[[Anatoli Voronov]]}} === Original crew === {{Spaceflight crew|terminology=Cosmonaut|position1=Commander|crew1_up=[[Alexey Leonov]]|position2=Flight Engineer|crew2_up=[[Valeri Kubasov]]|position3=Test Engineer|crew3_up=[[Pyotr Kolodin]]}} === Crew notes === An [[X-ray]] testing of the original crew found that Kubasov might have [[tuberculosis]]. According to the mission rules, the backup crew replaced the original crew. Dobrovolski and Patsayev never flew to space before. Kubasov and Leonov became the crew to [[Soyuz 19]] for the [[NASA#Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (1972–1975)|Apollo-Soyuz]] in 1975. == Death of crew == On 30 June 1971, after returing to the Earth of the capsule, the recovery team knocked on the side. There was no [[Wikt:response|response]]. Opening the [[wikt:Hatch|hatch]], they found all three men in their [[couch]]<nowiki/>es, no motion. There had dark-blue patches on their faces and trails of blood from their noses and ears. They brought them out from the capsule. Dobrovolsky was still warm. According to their reports, the reason of death was suffocat