Very RARE 1968 Flight book Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov Baikonur USSR for Sale

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Very RARE 1968 Flight book Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksandr Volkov Baikonur USSR:
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We offer you a VERY RARE 1968 Flight book. Pilot-CosmonautAleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Head of Administration of Star City, founder of the first space dynasty in the world!!!!!
The second link of the first squadron of military unit 19109, 809 training air regiment in the city of Akhtyrka, Sumy region. Training on the L-29 aircraft. Instructor Petrov N.T. In 1970 he graduated from the Kharkov Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots named after the twice Hero of the Soviet Union S. I. Gritsevets.He flew into space three times. His first spaceflight was a trip to Salyut 7 in 1985 (64 days in space), followed by two flights to the Mir space station, in 1988–1989 (151 days) and again in 1991–1992 (175 days) as commander of flight Soyuz TM-13. On board the Mir space station, he controlled the docking procedures among other thingsThe Soviet Union broke up in 1991 during his second stay on board Mir. At the time Volkov was orbiting Earth on Mir with Sergei K. Krikalev, \"the last citizens of the USSR\". Having gone into orbit as Soviet citizens, they returned to Earth as Russian citizensHe worked as Commander of the Cosmonaut Team at the Cosmonauts Training Centre from January 1991 until August 1998. His work was to prepare Russian and foreign cosmonauts for future flights to space stations to Mir and the International Space Station.1978 cosmonaut Group
Missions Soyuz T-14, Mir EO-4 (Soyuz TM-7), Soyuz TM-13Rank - Colonel, Soviet Air Force
He is the father of Sergey Volkov. The younger Volkov became the first second-generation cosmonaut when he was launched aboard Soyuz TMA-12 on 8 April 2008, his first of three flights; in total he spent over a year aboard the International Space Station.
Aleksandr Volkov was awarded: Hero of the Soviet Union (1985)
Order of Lenin (1985)
Order of the October Revolution (1989)
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1992)
Medal 2nd class of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (1996)
Medal \"For Merit in Space Exploration\" (2011)
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
Order of Merit 3rd class (Ukraine, 2011)
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