Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (born 1935)

Valery Kubasov

Soviet cosmonaut (1935–2014)

Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19, and commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme. On 21 July 1975, the Soyuz 7K-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan…