Posts: 140 From: Middletown, NJ, USA Registered: May 2010
posted 07-10-2016 01:29 PM
Pyotr Klimuk is celebrating his 74th birthday today. There is a very nice 4.5 minute film on Roscosmos' Twitter feed showing footage of his flights and career. Film that I had not seen before.
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.
Lasv3 Member
Posts: 410 From: Bratislava, Slovakia Registered: Apr 2009
posted 07-11-2016 12:55 AM
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 Member
Posts: 1310 From: Staten Island, New York USA Registered: Nov 2007
posted 07-11-2016 08:25 AM
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 Member
Posts: 855 From: Registered: Aug 2001
posted 11-13-2016 12:49 PM
Klimuk is one of those forgotten cosmonauts who never gets his due.