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

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda Region. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel General of Aviation Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin, members of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft crew commander Andriyan Grigorievich Nikolaev and flight engineer Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov, Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko and Valery Nikolayevich Kubasov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Stanislavovich Eliseyev (from left to right) during a press conference on the eve of the Soyuz-9 spacecraft flight at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS