About
Cosmonaut and commander of the 1985 Soyuz T-14 mission to the Salyut 7 space station. He spent more than sixty days in space.
Before Fame
He served in the Soviet Air Force.
Trivia
He fell ill on Salyut 7 and had to make an emergency return to Earth.
Family Life
He married and had two children. He died of cancer at the age of fifty.
Associated With
He and Yuri Gagarin were both Soviet cosmonauts.
