First name and last name | Valeri Kubasov |
Date of birth | 07.01.1935 |
Date of death | 19.02.2014 |
Nationality | Russian |
Space Agency | Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) (RFSA) |
Status | Dead |
Type of astronaut | Government agency |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Kubasov |
Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 – 19 February 2014) was a Soviet/Russian 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-TM module used for ASTP landed in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. and Kubasov was the first to exit the craft. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin.