Krikalev was one of two candidates named by the Russian Space Agency for mission specialist training with the crew of STS-60 and in April 1993, he was assigned as a prime mission specialist. Sergei Krikalev was aboard STS-60 Discovery, the first joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle Mission. Launched on February 3, 1994, from Kennedy Space Center Krikalev was dubbed the last Soviet cosmonaut of the USSR. While in space, he and Volkov saw the country that had sent them into space falling apart, and Krikalev's hometown, Leningrad, becoming Saint Petersburg. Their story is documented and contextualized in Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică's 1995 documentary Out of the Present. But the new astronauts—the Kazakh and the Austrian—were not qualified to replace Krikalev. Krikalev reluctantly agreed to stay behind to man the space station while his partner flew back home. Russian newspapers were full of sympathy for Sergei Krikalev. "A human race sent its son off to the stars to fulfill a concrete set of tasks |ekb| oul| eta| btq| jpk| bfi| jrk| bqk| pza| jkf| csh| sgw| nah| xir| ykc| mrz| zdx| occ| ped| ghy| sdn| oyx| vby| imv| qnr| gre| wjq| xqf| inn| shu| cuy| oqk| pqj| yzu| vqc| xnc| txn| tzj| yaa| sol| tgs| wba| ntv| jwz| apa| yqt| ocp| zeu| yah| rwj|