Yevgeniy Savitskiy Yevgeniy Savitskiy Yevgeniy Yakovlevich Savitzky (; , Novorossiysk, Black Sea Governorate — 6 April 1990) was a World War II fighter ace, 22 individual and 2 group victories Commanding General of Aviation of the Air Defense Forces of the Country, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Aviation. The asteroid 4303 Savitskij is named for him. His daughter, Svetlana Savitskaya became a Soviet cosmonaut who flew the Soyuz T-7 in 1982, becoming the second woman in space some 19 years after Valentina Tereshkova and in 1984, the first woman ever to fly to space twice and to perform a
The Cosmonaut that attempted to place a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon. The idea behind "The Cosmonaut" emerged from two main sources: a) the conversations between Nicolás Alcalá and Bruno Teixidor (the main creative minds behind the project's visual looks) about conspiracies, the Lost Cosmonauts theories and the Soviet space program; and b) the poetry book "Poetics for Cosmonauts", written by Henry Pierrot. Throughout the time it was developed, the main plot core underwent a lot of changes, although some key elements remained through all the process, mainly the principal plot element (the return of an astronaut to Earth after a long