Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, who served twice as a crew member aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), together with through the remaining US house shuttle mission in 2011, has died on the age of 56.
With Samokutyaev’s death on Wednesdayhe turns into the primary former ISS long-duration resident to die within the 26 years that the space station has been a home to 155 different cosmonauts and astronauts as expedition crew members. The reason for his dying is unknown.
Portrait of cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev.
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“The management and employees of the Roscosmos State Company prolong their honest condolences to the household and family members of Aleksandr Mikhailovich,” officers with Russia’s house company said in a statement.
