Preparation for the flight of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft crew

January 1 - May 20, 1970. USSR. Moscow Region. Crew members of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft, commander, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev and flight engineer Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (from left to right) during pre-flight preparation at the Yuri Gagarin Research and Testing Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS