Kugno Credit: Yves Dejardin Collection - Yves Dejardin Collection |
Status: Deceased; Active 1963-1964. Born: 1935-06-27. Died: 1994-02-24. Birth Place: Poltova.
Candidate of technical sciences degree. Airplane engineer, parachutist, Soviet Air Force. Left cosmonaut group for medical reasons. From 1968 to 1970 he was instructor for the Soviet Air Force in Algeria. From 1986 to 1990 he served as an instructor at the Military Engineering School in Kiev. He retired from military service in 1990, living until his death in Irkutsk. Died from cancer of stomach.
The group was selected to provide astronauts for the Soyuz manned spaceflight program.. Qualifications: Military pilots, engineers, or navigators under 40 years of age; graduate of military academy or civilian university; under 170 cm tall; under 70 kg in weight..
The General Staff of the VVS considers future cosmonaut assignments. The acceptance of Beregovoi into the active cosmonaut corps is hotly contested. He has passed all the tests, but is 43 years old, and the official maximum age for a cosmonaut is 35. Finally it is decided that on 25 January six cosmonauts will begin training for Vostok flights (Volynov, Khrunov, Belyayev, Leonov, Komarov, and Beregovoi). On 1 February four crews will begin training for Soyuz flights: Crew 1: Nikolayev, Shonin, Demin, Kugno; Crew 2: Bykovsky, Zaikin, Artyukhin, Gulyayev; Crew 3: Popovich, Gorbatko, Ponomaryova, Kolodin; Crew 4: Titov, Shatalov, Solovyova, Zholobov.