Valeri Kubasov
- Birth Date:
- 07.01.1935
- Death date:
- 19.02.2014
- Person's maiden name:
- Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov
- Extra names:
- Валерий Кубасов, Валерий Николаевич Кубасов
- Categories:
- Astronaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 – 19 February 2014) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TMmodule used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft.
He was also involved in the development of the Mir space station. He retired from the Soviet space program in March 1993. He was later deputy director of RKK Energia.
Kubasov had cheated death twice during his space career. He was part of the crew that was originally intended to fly Soyuz 2, which was found to have the same faulty parachute sensor that resulted in Vladimir Komarov's death on Soyuz 1 and was later launched without a crew. Later, he was grounded for medical reasons before the Soyuz 11 flight, which killed the crew when the capsule was accidentally depressurised by a faulty valve.
He was awarded:
- Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Three Orders of Lenin
- Medal "For Merit in Space Exploration"
- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Gold medal of the Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Gold Medal Yuri Gagarin
- Hero of the Hungarian People's Republic
- Gold medal "For Merit in the Development of Science and Humanity" (Czechoslovakia)
- Medal "People's Technicist" (Yugoslavia)
Death
Kubasov died in Moscow on 19 February 2014. He is survived by his wife Lyudmila Kurovskaya, daughter Ekaterina and son Dmitry.
Source: wikipedia.org
| Title | From | To | Images | Languages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan | en, ru |
| Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Valery Bykovsky | Coworker | |
| 2 |  | Gieorgij Grieczko | Coworker | |
| 3 |  | Andriyan Nikolayev | Coworker | |
| 4 |  | Georgy Beregovoy | Coworker | |
| 5 |  | Валентина Гагарина | Familiar | |
| 6 |  | Alexei Leonov | Familiar |
15.07.1975 | Rozpoczęła się wspólna radziecko-amerykańska misja kosmiczna Sojuz-Apollo
Program Sojuz-Apollo – pierwszy załogowy lot kosmiczny realizowany wspólnie przez ZSRR i USA. Misja ta stanowiła również ostatni lot kapsuły Apollo. Początkowo planowano przeprowadzenie go z udziałem statków Sojuz, Salut i Apollo lub Sojuz, Skylab i Apollo, ostatecznie wybrano wariant skromniejszy. Decyzję tę podjęto ostatecznie w kwietniu 1972 roku, a opublikowano 24 maja 1972 roku w czasie pobytu w Moskwie prezydenta Stanów Zjednoczonych Richarda Nixona. Pierwsze robocze spotkanie odbyło się w lipcu 1972 roku w centrum kierowania lotami kosmicznymi w Houston. Na generalnych dyrektorów przedsięwzięcia powołano ze strony Akademii Nauk ZSRR profesora Konstantina Buszujewa, a ze strony NASA doktora Glynna Lunneya.