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"Soviet Cosmonaut" Nikolai Rukavishnikov Signed FDC Dated 1985:
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Up for sale "Soviet Cosmonaut" Nikolai Rukavishnikov Hand Signed FDC Dated 1985. 

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Nikolai Nikolayevich September 1932 – 19 October 2002) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of

the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 10, Soyuz 16, and Soyuz 33. Two of these missions, Soyuz 10 and Soyuz 33 were

intended to dock with Salyut space stations, but failed to do so. Rukavishnikov studied at

the Moscow

Engineering and Physics Institute and after graduation worked

for Sergey Korolev's design

bureau. He was selected for cosmonaut training in 1967. Rukavishnikov became

the 50th human to fly in space on 23 April 1971, the launch date of Soyuz 10. The mission, along with Vladimir Shatalov and Aleksei Yeliseyev, was intended to dock with the Salyut 1 space station. They were unable to dock, and

returned to Earth two days later. He began his second flight, Soyuz 16, on 2 December 1974, with Anatoly Filipchenko. The

mission was a test of the Soyuz 7K-TM hardware being used in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.

The mission lasted six days, and was a complete success. His third

flight, Soyuz 33, was an Intercosmos flight to the Salyut 6 space station on 10 April 1979 with Bulgarian cosmonaut Georgi Ivanov. On its

final approach, the spacecraft's main engine failed, and the docking was

aborted. They were able to return to Earth with the backup engine, but an

overly-long re-entry burn led to a 10-g ballistic re-entry. The

crew was recovered safely. Rukavishnikov resigned from the space programme in

1987, and returned to work for the same bureau he started with, by then known

as Energia. He died of a heart attack on 18 October 2002. He was awarded:

USSR

·        

Hero of the

Mongolian People's Republic

·        

Hero of the

People's Republic of Bulgaria

·        

Order of of Mongolia)

·        

Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's

Republic of Bulgaria)

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