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Valeri Kubasov

Soviet cosmonaut and aerospace engineer, flight engineer of Soyuz 19 during the joint Apollo–Soyuz mission in 1975. He flew to space three times in total.
Spaceflights
Portrait of Soviet cosmonaut Valery Kubasov.
Spaceflights
1
Time in space
≈ 9 days

Biography

An aerospace engineer who entered the cosmonaut corps from the design bureau. As early as 1969, aboard Soyuz 6, he carried out one of the first experiments in welding metals in space. On Apollo–Soyuz he was flight engineer of Leonov's Soyuz 19.

Missions

Spaceflights

Official Apollo–Soyuz mission patch: the words APOLLO and СОЮЗ around a globe with the docked spacecraft.

15 July 1975

Apollo–Soyuz

Apollo–Soyuz (ASTP) was the first joint Soviet–American crewed flight, on 15–24 July 1975. The American Apollo docked with the Soviet Soyuz 19 and Tom Stafford shook hands with Alexei Leonov — the first international docking and a symbolic end to the space race.

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Facts

Things you may not know

  1. He was flight engineer of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 19 on the Apollo–Soyuz flight.

  2. As early as 1969 he experimented in orbit with welding metals in space.

  3. He flew to space three times in total.

Crews

Flew together

Tom StaffordCosmonaut / AstronautTom StaffordApollo–SoyuzVance BrandCosmonaut / AstronautVance BrandApollo–SoyuzDeke SlaytonCosmonaut / AstronautDeke SlaytonApollo–SoyuzAlexei LeonovCosmonaut / AstronautAlexei LeonovApollo–Soyuz
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