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Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian
language|Russian: Валерий
Николаевич Кубасов; born January
7, 1935 in Vyazniki) was a Soviet Union|Soviet
astronaut|cosmonaut who flew on two missions in
the Soyuz programme as a flight engineer: Soyuz 6
and Soyuz 19 (the Apollo-Soyuz mission), and
commanded Soyuz 36 in the Intercosmos programme.
He was also involved in the development of the Mir
space station. He retired from the Soviet space
program in March 1993.

Kubasov seems to have cheated death twice during
his space career. He was part of the crew that was
originally intended to fly Soyuz 2, which was
found to have the same faulty parachute sensor
that resulted in Vladimir Komarov's death on Soyuz
1 and was later launched without a crew. Later, he
was grounded for medical reasons before the Soyuz
11 flight. The back-up crew for that mission was
killed when the capsule was accidentally
depressurised by a faulty valve.

He was later deputy director of RKK Energia.

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