Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Rukavishnikov; civilian; born September 18, 1932, Tomsk, Siberia; married, one child. Graduated from the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute (1957), and joined the cosmonaut corps in 1967. He was the test engineer for Soyuz 10, flight engineer for Soyuz 16, and is currently a member of the first backup crew for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

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