A program from the cycle of programs "Russian Cosmos" for the Galaxy TV channel.
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh, 50th Cosmonaut of the USSR and 100th Cosmonaut of the world, Professor of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Commission on Space Toponymy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is a guest of the program.
Together with his colleague and friend Vladimir Dzhanibekov, the cosmonaut recalls the operation to save the Salyut-7 station in 1985, and also talks about the reasons for the transition from cosmonautics to teaching and about problems in the field of modern geodesy and cartography.
The program was attended by the curator of the MIIGAiK Museum fund Tatiana Ilyushina and other museum staff.
Savinykh V.P. - Soviet pilot-cosmonaut
1985