*FLOWN* MIR COMMANDER A.VOLKOV PINGUIN SUIT Start Price USD 6,495.00 Current Price USD 6,495.00 Time Left 8 days 10 hours 42 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 16, 2008 End Time Wednesday, January 14, 2009 Location Detroit, MI See more about '*FLOWN* MIR COMMANDER A.VOLKOV PINGUIN SUIT' Description maxuta_id="011006" *FLOWN* MIR COMMANDER A.VOLKOV PINGUIN SUIT This suit named PINGUIN-3 was flown for about 6 month (from 2 October, 1991 to 25 March, 1992) onboard MIR Space Station. The suit is specially designed to train the cosmonaut's body during longterm flights. It has the special rubber elastic springs inside. Cosmonaut Alexander Volkov was wearing it, so the suit was designed especially for him. The suit comes with the case for it with A.Volkov initials and the name of the suit. Upon request the buyer will receive the hand-written certificate of authenticity from Alexander Volkov - Colonel, Cosmonaut, The Former MIR Space Station Commander, Commander of the Cosmonauts Team, The Head of Russian Training Center for Cosmonauts, Hero of the Soviet Union. The certificate will be written on the photo of A.Volkov holding the item. It will be written in two languages - Russian and English if necessary and addressed personally to the buyer. ALEXANDER VOLKOV was born on 27 May, 1948. He graduated from the High Military Aviation School named after S. I. Grivteev in 1970. Military rank: colonel. As a cosmonaut-researcher he had a space flight on board the orbital research complex "Soyuz T-14", "Salut-7" from 17 September to 21 November, 1985. He had his second space flight as Commander of the Soviet-French team on board of the orbital research complex "Mir" from 28 November, 1998 to 27 April, 1989. During the flight a large program of scientific research was carried out and also the Soviet-French program with cosmonaut-researcher Jean-Louis Cretien was realised. He had his third flight as Commander of Expedition from 2 October, 1991 to 25 March, 1992. During this space flight Soviet-Austrian and Russian-German programs were realised together with cosmonauts researchers Frants Fibek and Klaus Ditrih Flade. Alexander Volkov was awarded a rank of Hero of the Soviet Union and Space Pilot of the USSR, Order of Lenin, Order of October Revolution and the "Golden Star" medal for the courage and heroism shown during these flights. He had been working as Commander of the Cosmonauts Team at the Cosmonauts Training Center from January 1991 until August 1998. His work was to prepare Russian and foreign cosmonauts for future flights to space stations "Mir" and "New International Space Station". The personal certification procedure will take some time to be coordinated with Mr. Volkov - such a busy man, take his photos and write the certificate on ready photos. After the auction ends the seller will contact the buyer to find out his wishes for the certificate. Usually it takes a week, maybe more. That is for serious collectors only! We will do it before you pay to make you sure. Condition - very good. See scan when downloaded. Happy buying! Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!