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.
Spacecraft s/n 14, 15, and 16 are to fly in August 1969, 17 and 18 in November 1969, and 19 and 20 in February-March 1970.
Crews selected for the August flights are: for spacecraft 14, Shonin and Kubasov; for 15, Filipchenko, Volkov, and Gorbatko; for 16, Nikolayev and Sevastyanov.
Soyuz 35 landed at 15:07 GMT, 140 km SE Dzehezkazgan, with the crew of Farkas and Kubasov aboard.
Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov, cyrillic Валерий Николаевич Кубасов, (born January 7, 1935 in Vyazniki[?]) was a Soviet 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.
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.
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