The general designer at Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (Korolyov, Moscow region) and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Viktor Legostayev has died in Moscow aged 83 after a long illness, an RSC spokesperson told Interfax on Thursday.(…)
He supervised, and was directly involved in, the creation of what is now considered priority systems in global practice, including: the system of automatic control over space rendezvous for artificial earth satellites and spacecraft with Salyut and Mir orbital stations, the control system for the Soyuz-19 manned spacecraft for the U.S.-Soviet Soyuz-Apollo project, a complex, multirole adaptable and practically non-flow control system for the ever increasing orbital manned complex Mir, which provided reliable control over its orientation for 15 years.