The Last Soviet Citizen..

The Last Soviet Citizen


Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev saw his nation's fall from space and set a rough course for global coordinated effort.

The Last Soviet CitizenTwo cosmonauts ventured off a transport at the Baikonur Cosmodrome - the Soviet Cape Canaveral - prepared to ride a 10-story Soyuz rocket into space. This dispatch complex in the heart of Kazakhstan had sent the primary satellite, creature and human (Sputnik, Laika and Yuri Gagarin) into space. It was the spring of 1991, three decades after Gagarin's memorable flight, and Sergei Krikalev and Anatoly Artsebarsky were there to emulate his example. In any case, to begin with, they kept up the custom Gagari...
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