Baikonur Veteran to get Space Burial
15.07.2010
By Alexey Eremenko
Vitaly Fyodorov, who devoted 44 years of his life to space launches from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome will become the first Russian to have his cremated remains carried into orbit on a Russian rocket.
A U.S. rocket carried another Russian’s remains into space in 2004.
Fyodorov, an engineer who was involved...