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Personal: Male. Born in Satka, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Natural causes. Soviet Air Force Graduated from Air Force Academy, Monino, 1961 Soviet Air Force. Soviet Air Force. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: Air Force Group 2 - 1963. Deceased Entered space service: 8 January 1963. Left space service: 15 September 1975. Cosmonaut training January 1963 - 21 January 1965. Retired for medical reasons (heart problems) in July 1975 . Worked on the General Staff of the Soviet Air Force. Retired in 1987. Died in Space City.
Kuklin Chronology 8 January 1963 - 15 new cosmonauts are selected.. The new trainees include one from the VMF Navy Aviation, two from the PVO Air Defence, four from the RVSN Strategic Rocket Forces, and eight from the VVS Air Force. 10 January 1963 - Soviet Air Force Cosmonaut Training Group 2 selected.. The group was selected to provide astronauts for the Soyuz manned spaceflight program.. Qualifications: Military pilots, engineers, or navigators under 40 years of age; graduate of military academy or civilian university; under 170 cm tall; under 70 kg in weight.. 1965 July - Spiral cosmonaut team formed. In 1965 the advanced project of the Mikoyan Spiral aerospace system was approved. The ambitious work plan indicted operation of a regular earth-orbit-earth reusable transportation system by the mid-1970's. With Gherman Titov as its head, a Spiral cosmonaut training group was formed (Titov, Dobrovolskiy, Filipchenko, Kuklin, Matinchenko) to train to fly the spaceplane. 2 September 1965 - Spiral cosmonaut team changes. The was team now consisted of Titov, Beregovoy, Filipchenko, Kuklin, and Shatalov. 2 September 1966 - Cosmonaut military program training groups. Kamanin organises the cosmonauts into the following training groups:
28 September 1968 - Cosmonaut exams are held for Beregovoi, Shatalov, and Volynov.. The results will establish the order in which they will fly as Soyuz commanders. A 25-person board, consisting of spacecraft designers and cosmonauts, conduct the oral examinations. Each cosmonaut must answer five mandatory essay questions and select two two-part questions. All three are certified for flight and have a complete mastery of the Soyuz systems. Mishin and Kamanin meet and decide on L1 crews: Leonov-Makarov (with Kuklin as back-up); Bykovsky-Rukavishnikov (Klimuk back-up); and Popovich-Sevastyanov (Voloshin back-up). But that evening Leonov has yet another automobile accident. He hit a bus with his Volga at kilometre 24 near Shchelkovsky. This was his second accident in four months. Kamanin decides to prohibit him from driving automobiles for six months. 1969 March - Soyuz 7K-L1 mission 1 (cancelled). Planned first manned circumnavigation of the moon. Soviet plans to beat America around the moon were upstaged by the sudden decision to fly Apollo 8 into lunar orbit over Christmas 1968. It was decided after the American success to cancel any 'second place' Soviet manned circumlunar flights. 26 April 1969 - Soyuz program review. The commission considers plans for the rest of the Soyuz production. Spacecraft s/n 14, 15, and 16 are to fly in August 1969, 17 and 18 in November 1969, and 19 and 20 in February-March 1970. Crews selected for the August flights are: for spacecraft 14, Shonin and Kubasov; for 15, Filipchenko, Volkov, and Gorbatko; for 16, Nikolayev and Sevastyanov. Back-ups will be Kuklin, Grechko, and Kolodin. All of the spacecraft will fly 4 to 5 day missions. Spacecraft 15 and 16 will dock and remain together 2 or 3 days to form an 'orbital station'. Experiments planned for the flight are:
Spacecraft 17 through 20 will fly 15 to 16 day missions to demonstrate the new SZhO life support system for the L3, and conduct rendezvous and docking operations using the L3's Kontakt system. Additional Details: Soyuz program review. 21 August 1969 - Final crew selections are made for the Soyuz 6, 7, 8 flights.. Sevastyanov and Nikolayev did poorly on the final test for the 7/6 crew. Therefore Shatalov and Yeliseyev have been selected. Khrunov has been in an auto accident, and Kuklin didn't pass his centrifuge tests - so they're out as well. 1969 November - Soyuz n 18 (cancelled). Would have simulated the passive LK lunar lander in an earth-orbit test of the Kontakt docking system. Bibliography:
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