Vladimir Shatalov

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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (Russian: Владимир Александрович Шаталов; born December 8, 1927) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Shatalov was born in Petropavlovsk. From 1971 to 1987, he was Commander of Cosmonaut Training, and Director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre from then until 1991. Quote: "When we look into the sky it seems to us to be endless. We breathe without thinking about it, as is natural... and then you sit aboard a spacecraft, you tear away from Earth, and within ten minutes you have been carried straight through the layer of air, and beyond there is nothing! The 'boundless' blue sky, the ocean which gives us breath and protects us from endless black and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. How dangerous it is to threaten even the smallest part of this gossamer covering, this conserver of life."

Biography from Launch Library 2.

Born in

Petropavl

Education

Gagarin Air Force Academy; Kacha Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots

Awards

Order of Friendship; Order of the cavalier of Madara; Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class; Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class; Order of the Polar Star; and 31 more

From Wikidata.

• Soyuz | Soyuz 10Commander · Success · with Aleksei Yeliseyev, Nikolay RukavishnikovApril 22, 1971 · 23:54 UTC
• Soyuz | Soyuz 8Commander · Success · with Aleksei YeliseyevOctober 13, 1969 · 10:19 UTC
• Soyuz | Soyuz 4Commander · SuccessJanuary 14, 1969