Vitaly Sevastyanov
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov | |
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Civilian Specialist Group 3 | |
| Missions | Soyuz 9, Soyuz 18 |
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (Russian: Вита́лий Ива́нович Севастья́нов; 8 July 1935 – 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.
He trained as an engineer at the
After two successful missions, including a two-month stay on the
In 1971, he was the backup Flight Engineer for the ill-fated Soyuz 11 Mission, which ended in disaster when the craft depressurized above the Kármán line, killing the three man crew.
He was president of the Soviet Chess Federation from 1977 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1989.
During the 1980s he was the host of a popular television program on space exploration entitled Man, Earth, Universe.
In 1993, he left the space programme and was elected to the State Duma in 1994.
Sevastyanov, along with Aleksey Leonov, Rusty Schweickart and Georgy Grechko established the Association of Space Explorers in 1984. Membership is open to all people who have flown in outer space.
He died in Moscow on 5 April 2010, aged 74.[2]
Awards
- Twice Hero of the Soviet Union
- Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR
- Two Orders of Lenin
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
- State Prize of the USSR
- Lenin Komsomol Prize
- Honoured Master of Sport
- Order of the Nile (Egypt)
- Yuri Gagarin Gold Medal (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale)[3]
References
- ^ http://www.vor.ru/Space_now/Cosmonauts/Cosmonauts_3.html Cosmonauts Retrieved 19 March 2010. [dead link]
- ^ "Cosmonaut Sevastyanov dies". 6 April 2010. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 6 April 2010.
- ^ Simonov, Andrey. "Севастьянов Виталий Иванович". Герои страны. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
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