Space
Cover Signed by Valery Bykovsky Soviet Cosmonaut Pilot
8 12 83 Mockba Russian Space Cover Personally
Signed by Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky . Who was born 2 August 1934,
Pavlovsky Posad. He is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space
mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was also backup for
Vostok 3 and Soyuz 37.
Bykovsky set a space endurance record when he
spent five days in orbit aboard Vostok 5 in 1963. Although this flight duration
has long since been surpassed by crews of more than one person, to this day it
remains the endurance record for a solo spaceflight.
Bykovsky was to have commanded the
original Soyuz 2 mission, which was cancelled due to problems with Soyuz 1.
After the parachutes failed on that mission, killing Vladimir Komarov, the same
problem was found with the Soyuz 2 capsule, which meant if the mission had
flown, Bykovsky and his crew would also have been killed.Details enclosed
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