Vitali Sevastiyanov
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov born 8 July 1935, died 5 April 2010. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Aviation Institute and after graduation in 1959, joined Sergey Korolev\'s design bureau, where he worked on the design of the Vostok spacecraft. He also lectured at the Cosmonaut Training Centre, teaching the physics of spaceflight. In 1967 he commenced cosmonaut training himself. After two successful missions, including a two-month stay on the Salyut 4 space station, he was pulled from active flight status in 1976. He worked in ground control for the Salyut 6 station before returning to spacecraft design in the 1980s to work on the Buran project. In 1993, he left the space programme and was elected to the State Duma in 1994. Sevastyanov, along with Alexey Leonov, Rusty Schweickart and Georgi Grechko established the Association of Space Explorers in 1984. Membership is open to all people who have flown in outer space.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz 9 Flight Engineer 01.06. - 19.06.1970 17d 16h 58m
2 Soyuz 18 Flight Engineer 24.05. - 26.07.1975 62d 23h 20m
Total 80d 16h 18m
