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Up for sale "Russian Cosmonaut" Valeri Kubasov Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1985.

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Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Вале́рий 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. Kubasov was also involved in the development of

the Mir space station. He retired

from the Russian space program in

November 1993 and was later deputy director of RKK Energia. Kubasov evaded death twice during his space

career. He was part of the crew that was originally intended to fly Soyuz 2, which was found to have the same faulty parachute

sensor that resulted in Vladimir Komarov's

death on Soyuz 1 and was later launched without a crew. Later, he

was grounded for medical reasons before the Soyuz 11 flight, which killed the crew when the capsule

was accidentally depressurised by a faulty valve. Kubasov was born 7 January

1935, in Vyazniki, Vladimir Oblast, Ivanovo Industrial Oblast, RSFSR,

now Vladimir Oblast, Russia. After finishing secondary school in 1952, he graduated

from the Moscow Aviation Institute in

1958 as an aerospace engineer and

reported to work at the bureau led by Sergei

Korolev. Initially focusing on ballistic studies, Kubasov worked

on the design of the Voskhod capsule. He

authored several studies on the calculation of spaceship trajectories, and

acquired a Master of Science degree

in Engineering. In May 1964, while working for Korolev,

Kubasov became one of a handful of civilian candidates who passed preliminary

medical screening for one of the Soviet Voskhod missions. Two years later, after some relaxation

of the existing rules, Kubasov along with Georgy Grechko and Vladislav Volkov, were officially accepted into the newly

established civilian cosmonaut corps. Kubasov's first space mission, the

five-day Soyuz 6 flight in October 1969, was unsuccessful due to

technical issues as space vehicles never met up. During Soyuz 6 mission Kubasov

and Georgy Shonin performed

the first welding experiment in space. The Vulcan furnace required internal hatches modules to be sealed, with the welding performed

automatically, overseen by Kubasov. Samples welded together, then

cut, after which the hatches were opened for Kubasov to perform a hand-held

welding. However, in 1990 it became known that Vulcan's low-pressure compressed

arc had inadvertently targeted a beam at the orbital module wall. Upon opening

the hatch, the cosmonauts discovered the damage and, fearing a depressurization, returned to the descent module. Following

his first mission, Kubasov began training to fly aboard the world's first space station, Salyut 1, along with Georgy Shonin and Pyotr Kolodin. In 1971 Kubasov was almost launched aboard the

ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission, he was among the prime crew

alongside Alexei Leonov. Medics from

the Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow found a swelling on Kubasov's

right lung.[4] Fearing the onset of tuberculosis, the entire Soyuz 11 prime crew was grounded and

replaced by the backup: Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev. In his memoir Two Sides of the Moon Leonov

would later write: "It turned out later, that [Kubasov] was allergic to a

chemical insecticide used to spray trees". The

July, 1975, Apollo–Soyuz Test Project became

Kubasov's second space mission and he was a flight engineer on it. Kubasov

spent several hours in the Apollo command and

docking modules. During this project Kubasov told the U.S. President Gerald Ford in a TV linkup, that they got "good

space food... some juice, some coffee and a lot of water". Kubasov's