The MIR'92 crew in the Soyuz simulator
The MIR'92 crew in the Soyuz simulator
Klaus-Dietrich Flade (behind), Aleksandr Viktorenko and Aleksandr (Sascha) Kaleri (front) in the Sojus TM simulator. Flade was the first German astronaut to take part in a spaceflight of the former USSR. On 17 March 1992, the then 39-year-old Luftwaffe test pilot, together with Viktorenko and Kaleri, were launched from Baikonur en route to the Russian space station Mir on board the Soyuz TM-14 spacecraft.
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dpa-Bildarchiv.