Died cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov

At the 84 th year of life died pilot astronaut, a hero of the Soviet Union Konstantin Feoktistov.

Feoktistov was the first civilian and unaffiliated Soviet cosmonaut and first man who first constructed spacecraft, and then they flew. In 1964 he composed the first group of crew spaceship "Vostok" (with Boris Egorov and Vladimir Komarov). It was the first space flight without spacesuits.

After space flight Feoktistov continued to work in OKB-1 and worked on ships series of Soyuz and Progress.