
Sergei Volkov hopes to do as well as his father, a highly decorated Soviet-era cosmonaut, when he lifts off in a Soyuz rocket April 8. Sergei Volkov is the son of Alexander Volkov, 59, a veteran cosmonaut who logged up 391 days in space on three separate space missions in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was awarded an Order of Lenin and named a Hero of the Soviet Union for his performance.
The
Soviet Union broke up in 1991. At the time Volkov was orbiting Earth on
Mir with
Sergei K. Krikalev,"the last citizens of the USSR ". Having gone into orbit as Soviet citizens, they returned to Earth as
Russian citizens.
When Sergei returns to Earth, space tourist
Richard Garriott, son of astronaut
Owen Garriott will be aboard the same spacecraft.
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