Valeri Kubasov
Valeri Kubasov is an astronaut from Russia affiliated with the government agency Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS), embarked on 3 space flights and engaging in 0 spacewalk(s) during his/her career as an astronaut.
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.
- Date of Birth: 01/07/1935
- Date of Death: 02/19/2014
- Status: Deceased
- First Flight: 10/11/1969
- Last Flight: 05/26/1980
- In Space: No
