Cosmos-186 Cosmos-188 Spacecraft Docking Model

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Cosmos-186 Cosmos-188 Spacecraft Docking Model Cosmos-186 Cosmos-188 spacecraft model,
High quality handmade metal detailed model, 12” long and 6 “ wide (with solar panels).
Kosmos 186 and Kosmos 188 were two unmanned Soviet Union spacecraft that incorporated a Soyuz program descent module for landing scientific instruments and test objects. The two Soviet spacecraft made the first fully automated space docking in the history of space exploration on 30 October 1967. Mutual search, approach, mooring, and docking were automatically performed by the IGLA-system onboard Kosmos 186. After 3.5 hours of joint flight, the satellites parted on a command sent from the Earth and continued to orbit separately. Officially, both made a soft landing in a predetermined region of the Soviet Union — Kosmos 186 on 31 October 1967 and Kosmos 188 on 2 November 1967. But according to Boris Chertok, "one of the vehicles was destroyed by the emergency destruction system".