Biographies | Valeriy Nikolayevich Kubasov

Valeriy Nikolayevich Kubasov

Kubasov was born on January 7, 1935, in the city of Vyazniki, Vladimir Region. After finishing secondary school in 1952, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. During his studies there, he displayed an inclination for theoretical research. On graduating the institute in 1958, he started to work at a designing bureau. He is the author of a number of studies dealing with the calculation of spaceship trajectories, and is the holder of a Master of Science (Engineering) degree.

In 1966 he was enlisted with the cosmonauts' unit, and took a complete course of space-flight training. As flight engineer of Soyuz-6 he took part in the group space flight with spaceships Soyuz-7 and Soyuz-8 in October 1969. On board the Soyuz-6 he conducted experimental welding in outer space.

Valeriy Kubasov is married and has one child.

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