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Valery Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (died 2014)

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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…
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January 7

Day of the year

January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 358 days remain until the end of the year.
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