This homely-cute fellow was lost cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko. He was born February 16, 1937
This homely-cute fellow was lost cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko. He was born February 16, 1937 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. His fellow cosmonauts described him as a top athlete, as having a beautiful singing voice and just generally a mellow, all-around nice person. That might be an exaggeration but with that sweet face and those eyes, he couldn’t have been evil.Valya died March 23, 1961, after a fire in an altitude chamber during testing and training. He left behind his wife Anna and five-year-old son Sasha. The government, not wanting any Soviet space program failures to reach the general public, unpersoned him. His existence was revealed in 1986. -- source link
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