Bidspirit auction | Cosmonauts Gorbatko and Glazkov signed

Cosmonauts Gorbatko and Glazkov signed 1977 vintage Soyuz 24 Russian space cover. Viktor Gorbatko 1934 - 17 May 2017 was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7, Soyuz 24, and Soyuz 37 missions. Yury Nikolayevich Glazkov 2 October 1939 - 9 December 2008 was a Soviet Air Force officer and a cosmonaut. Glazkov held the rank of major general in the Russian Air Force. He served as a flight engineer in the Soviet Air Force before being selected as a cosmonaut on 23 October 1965. He flew as a Flight Engineer on the Soyuz 24 mission. He retired from the cosmonaut corps on 26 January 1982. After Soyuz 24, he was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. Soyuz 24 (Russian: ???? 24, Union 24) was a February, 1977, Soviet mission to the Salyut 5 space station, the third and final mission to the station, the last purely military crew for the Soviets and the final mission to a military Salyut. The cosmonauts Viktor Gorbatko and Yuri Glazkov re-activated the station after toxic fumes had apparently terminated the mission of Soyuz 21, the previous crew. They performed biological and materials experiments while on board. Other presumed activities included photographic reconnaissance, and finishing tasks the previous crew was forced to abandon when their mission abruptly ended. The Soyuz 24 crew landed after spending 18 days in space, and the Salyut station was de-orbited six months later.