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Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov. Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov playing guitar and singing with (from left to right) astronauts Charlie Precourt, Bonnie Dunbar, and Greg Harbaugh in June 1995 during the space shuttle's first visit to the Russian space station Mir.
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Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov.
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov.

Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov

Russian cosmonaut
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Asif A. Siddiqi
Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, Bronx, New York. Author of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974.
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Gennady Mikhailovich Strekalov (born Oct. 28, 1940, Mytishchi, U.S.S.R. [now Russia]—died Dec. 25, 2004, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut who flew five times in space over a period of 15 years and who participated in the first joint Russian-American flight to the Mir space station. From 1957 Strekalov was a mechanic at the OKB-1 design organization (now known as RKK Energia) and worked on the first Sputnik satellite. In 1973 he formally joined...

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