Vladimir Syromyatnikov
Vladimir Sergeevich Syromyatnikov (January 7, 1933 - September 19, 2006) was a Russian engineer and designer in the former Soviet space program. His notable designs including the docking mechanisms for crewed spacecraft; it was his Androgynous Peripheral Attach System which, in the 1970s, linked the Soviet and American space capsules in the Apollo-Soyuz test flight.Syromyatnikov also helped design and develop Vostok, the world's first crewed spacecraft, which launched Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Nicolay Davidenko, Irina Davidenko, Nicolay Kuranda, Elena Mokrinskaya, Valeriy Pavlov, Viacheslav Solntsev, Sergey Studzinsky, Vladimir Syromyatnikov, Vitaliy Tarasenko, Nicolay ChuprinaGet full text
Published 2017-12-01
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