Preparations for the group flight of the Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 spacecraft at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. October 12, 1969. The crew of the Soyuz-8 spacecraft Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts, spacecraft commander Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov and flight engineer Aleksey Stanislavovich Eliseyev (from left to right) during preparations for the launch of the Soyuz-8 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to participate in the world's first group flight of three spacecraft, Soyuz-6, Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS