Press conference before the flight of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft at Baikonur

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda region. Crew members of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev and flight engineer Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (left to right) during a press conference at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on the eve of the orbital flight. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS