1970s RUSSIAN ASTRONAUT SIGNED SPACE DOCUMENT FOLDER

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1970s RUSSIAN ASTRONAUT SIGNED SPACE DOCUMENT FOLDER Please click MotkaCom for over 5,000 collectible items for sale 1970s RUSSIAN ASTRONAUT KLIMUK SIGNED DOCUMENT FOLDER (unused Official Thanks Letter). Size 8 by 11". Perfect condition. Beautiful design. Pyotr Ilyich Klimuk Belarusian Pilot Cosmonaut. Born to a peasant family on June 10, 1942 in the Brest region of Belarus. In 1965 he was accepted into the Soviet cosmonaut unit (1965 Air Force Group # 3). He underwent the full general space preparation course and trained for space flight on Soyuz type spacecraft and on the orbital station Salyut. He performed his first flight on December 18-26, 1973, as commander of the space ship Soyuz -13 (call sign - Kavkas) together with Vitaly Vasilyevich Lebedev. His space flight lasted 7 days 20 hours 55 minutes and 35 seconds. In January 1975 he was the commander of the support crew (together with Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov) during the Soyuz -17 flight. In April 1975 he was the commander of the reserve crew (together with Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov) during the Soyuz -18-1 flight. He made his second space flight from May 24 through July 26, 1975, together with Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov. During that flight he served as commander of the spacecraft Soyuz -18-2 and the orbital complex Salyut -4 - Soyuz -18-2 (call sign Kavkas). Their read more