Feoktistov is a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the northern hemisphere, to the northwest of the Mare Moscoviense. This...

The Feoktistov crater on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor. During the Nazi occupation of Voronezh, at the age of just 16, Feoktistov fought...

Konstantin Feoktistov (1926–2009), Soviet aerospace engineer and cosmonaut Feoktistov (crater), lunar crater named for Konstantin Feoktistov Stanislav...

the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...

crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located along the western perimeter of the Mare Moscoviense, and to the southeast of the crater Feoktistov....

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which he was awarded the Hero of Socialist Labor (1991, posthumously). A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him. Born in November 1859 in...

played poorly in comparison to his crew: Boris Yegorov and Konstantin Feoktistov. On 9 October, Komarov and the crew inspected the Voskhod with Korolev...

more stable dynamically". Beginning with work on the Vostok, Konstantin Feoktistov was recruited directly by Korolev to be the principal designer for crewed...

by President of Russia Vladimir Putin in 2015. The crater Tsiolkovskiy, the most prominent crater on the far side of the Moon, was named after him. Asteroid...

having died of typhus in March of that year in the city of Kislovodsk. The crater Tsander on the Moon is named after him. The Latvian Academy of Sciences...

part of the Reactive Scientific Research Institute (RNII). A number of craters on the far side of the Moon are named after GDL employees. First rocket...

in 1976, was named in Glushko's honour by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh Crater Glushko on the Moon is named after him An avenue in the Ukrainian capital...

Mikhail Tikhonravov. In 1962 the names GDL, GIRD and RNII were assigned to crater chains on the far side of the Moon. Gas Dynamics Laboratory Chertok 2005...

in Baikonur (the other is in honor of his main rival Sergei Korolev) The crater Yangel on the Moon. A minor planet 3039 Yangel discovered by Soviet astronomer...

included Yuri Gagarin and 14 others. In 1970, a 262 km (163-mile) wide crater on the far side was named after him. Gagarin was inducted as a member of...

in May 1967. There they met cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Konstantin Feoktistov, with whom they drank vodka on the Soviets' Tupolev Tu-134. Collins found...

Gagarin Alexander Kemurdzhian Valentina Tereshkova Alexei Leonov Konstantin Feoktistov Mikhail Tikhonravov Mikhail Yangel Valentin Glushko Vladimir Chelomey...

and Schmitt rode the Lunar Roving Vehicle to geological station 2, Nansen Crater, at the foot of the South Massif. As all spacewalks not occurring on a planetary...

Socialist Labor. In 1966 the following employees of RNII were assigned crater names on the far side of the Moon for their contribution to rocketry; Sergei...

latter was found to be composed of the smaller Mare Ingenii and other dark craters. Luna 2 marked the first time a man-made object has contacted a celestial...

a person into orbit for the first time. Sergei Korolev and Konstantin Feoktistov began, in June 1956, crewed spacecraft research. The program developed...