[FPSPACE] Feoktistov dies

[James Oberg]

Re that Soyuz flight, I haven't seen it mentioned in any of the tributes 
noww appearing
in the russian press. I'd be happy to learn new details of it, you betcha.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Jones" <clj at panix.com>
To: "FPSpace" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] Feoktistov dies


> Allen Thomson wrote:
>>
>> http://vrn.kp.ru/online/news/574747/
>
> Interestingly, the picture that accompanies this article shows
> Feoktistov wearing a spacesuit, which of course he did not on
> his sole space flight, on Voskhod in 1964.  It appears to be from
> the time he was training for a flight on a Soyuz-TM, a flight he
> never made because of a supposed lack of fitness for the mission.
>
> The picture is also captioned something like "what he looked like
> half a century ago", which is of course not accurate, since there
> were no cosmonauts in training in 1959, least of all Feoktistov.
>
> Anyway, now there is no one left alive who flew into orbit on
> Voskhod.
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