[FPSPACE] Feoktistov dies

[Rudolf van Beest]

 Feoktistov trained with Leonid Kizim and Oleg Makarov for the Soyuz T-3 
mission to Salyut-6. Physical problems forced Feoktistov to step aside just 
days before launch.
The first manned launch of Soyuz TM took place early 1987. Feoktistov was 
already 60 years old at that time. I think it's unlikely
he would be still in training for a flight at that age.
Gr. Rudolf van Beest.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Jones" <clj at panix.com>
To: "FPSpace" <fpspace at friends-partners.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 8:06 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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