Valery Kubasov was a Soviet cosmonaut and engineer who flew three spaceflights, including the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first joint crewed spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union, on which he served as flight engineer aboard the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft that docked with the American Apollo capsule. He later commanded an Interkosmos mission in 1980 that carried the first Hungarian cosmonaut, Bertalan Farkas, to the Salyut 6 space station.
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Notable MissionApollo-Soyuz Test Project (Soyuz 19) 3 Classification
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Russia, nationality there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Soviet Union, nationality there.
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Wikipedia Valery Kubasov lead section infobox, selection field (w-bbfill-edspace5-0927)View the Source 3. Valery Kubasov - Wikipedia
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1935-01-07
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7 January 1935
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a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut
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Soyuz 6 and Soyuz 19
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Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов; 7 January 1935 - 19 February 2014) was a Soviet and 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.
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