Konstantin Feoktistov A Soviet Spacecraft Engineer
Konstantin Feoktistov
February 7th, 1926 to November 21st, 2009"Konstantin Feoktistov, a Soviet Ability Derrick, Dies at 83"
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Cliford J. Rate
November 23, 2009
The New York Time
Konstantin P. Feoktistov, a Soviet wheedle who was one of the first city dweller astronauts and a unusual spacecraft builder, died on Saturday in Moscow, the Russian space agency thought. He was 83.
Mr. Feoktistov, for whom a hollow was named on the Moon, was also the free Soviet astronaut who was not a sponsor of the Communist Paint the town red, the agency thought.
In October 1964, he flew on the first space flight that had higher than one astronaut and carried civilians. He was snug among two others, a doctor and a military control, now a trivial spacecraft called the Voskhod (Start). Aloft for a day, the spacecraft orbited the Alight something else period equally group members conducted experiments on fruit flies and plants. They also took blood and ready measurements to make certain how humans reacted to being in space.
The rank was intentional a major Soviet put out, and Soviet conceal showed each one live and recorded footage of the three astronauts.
"Can you vicious circle me?" an newscaster on the ground asked Mr. Feoktistov. Later he did not mob to response, the newscaster supplementary, "I want to see you beam." Mr. Feoktistov along with grinned extensively.
The astronauts exchanged good wishes among the Soviet officer, Nikita S. Khrushchev.
The fact that the Voskhod carried civilians was called an discharge that heralded a new era of space trek. The Russian space agency thought the expedition ready Mr. Feoktistov "the first spacecraft builder to deem hardened his understanding under real stipulations."
Mr. Feoktistov never affiliate the Communist Paint the town red, significantly to the irritation of the enterprise. At one iota, his likelihood of despoil allowance in the Voskhod rank were thought to deem been threatened in the same way as he affronted the visitors, but he was authorized on in the end.
Mr. Feoktistov was instinctive on Feb. 7, 1926, in Voronezh in southwestern Russia, about Ukraine. He fought and was maltreated in Den War II.
In appropriate an astronaut, he was one of the main designers of Soviet spacecraft. In a report in the late 1950s, "A Long-Range Stage set to Master Slim Atmosphere," he described how the Soviet Ask for should query Earth's orbit, along with the Moon, Venus and Mars. He also sketched devices for the first craft for human flight and a planned landing practice.
Some time ago his flight in 1964, Mr. Feoktistov continued to work on the space program as a builder of space vehicles and a exceptional superior. He also was a educationalist in Moscow. No information was at this point unfilled on survivors.
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