Konstantin Feoktistov
Designer-cosmonaut; Voskhod, Soyuz, the stations
Timeline - Feoktistov in the record
7 entries from the Secret Dawn - Among the Stars archive, 5 of them events in Feoktistov's own life.
By his own account Konstantin Feoktistov survives being shot and left for dead by German troops as a teenage scout in the war, a brush with death that marks the future spacecraft designer.
At Korolev's bureau, Feoktistov is a lead designer of the Vostok capsule that carries Gagarin, and then of Voskhod and Soyuz, the engineer who drew the ships. The year he moved onto the Vostok work is not established by the research behind this archive.
Korolev strips a Vostok to cram in three: a pilot, an engineer (Feoktistov) and a physician (Yegorov), flying without pressure suits. The flight lasts 1 day 17 minutes 3 seconds.
Rejected in 1962 for short sight and admitted only in May 1964, Yegorov flies on Voskhod 1 with Komarov and Feoktistov, making the first medical observations of humans in orbit by a doctor.
A civilian engineer, Feoktistov talks his way onto Voskhod 1, becoming the first engineer and one of the first designers to fly in his own spacecraft.
Feoktistov becomes a principal designer of the Salyut stations, the orbital homes at the centre of this history. The years of that work, and any part in Mir, are not established by the research behind this archive.
Feoktistov dies in Moscow, remembered as the engineer who both designed and flew the early Soviet spacecraft.
The research file for this dossier holds 7 verified source entries, 7 of them distinct works. The sources page lists every one of them with what it covers, how it was reached, and the sharpest point at which this page and its sources come apart.