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Forum:	Space Explorers & Workers
Topic:	Cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk (Soyuz 13, 18, 30)

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="sans-serif">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Neil DC</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="sans-serif">Pyotr Klimuk is celebrating his 74th birthday today. There is a very nice 4.5 minute film <A HREF="https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/752064436324569088" TARGET=_blank>on Roscosmos' Twitter feed</A> showing footage of his flights and career. Film that I had not seen before. <P>Klimuk seems to have been one of "the chosen ones" from early in his career. In many of the cosmonaut group pictures he is often seen front and center with the early cosmonauts.<P><center><iframe width="400" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wP_JCcH8MNg?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Lasv3

I remember that NASA management was not very happy with the fact that Klimuk's second flight of Soyuz 18/Salyt 4 was still in orbit during the ASTP flight in July 1975. There were some concerns whether the CUP (Soviet equivalent of MSC) will be able to manage two Soviet spaceflights safely in the same time. As history shows, everything went well without any problems.

onesmallstep

The concern, I think, was not really justified because, as is known, then-Soviet mission controllers were more than capable in handling the launch, rendezvous and docking of Soyuz 4/5 and the 'group flights' of Soyuz 6, 7 and 8 in years prior. I think NASA was more concerned about the redesign of the Soyuz following the Soyuz 11 decompression accident and new safety/flight procedures.

dom

Klimuk is one of those forgotten cosmonauts who never gets his due.

Apollo-Soyuz

As a tribute to Klimuk, here is a scan of an autographed Soyuz 13 first day cover.

eurospace

The other autograph is the one of Vitali Lebedev, who was Klimuk's crew mate on Soyuz 13.

Daniel Lazecky

You can compare also: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5. It's from my collection. Klimuk is a perfect man, he's a great character also.

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