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I rewrote this biography. The previous article was minimal and contained some disparaging and inaccurate comments probably derived from astronautix.com (a great site usually, but very negative and not always accurate about Soviet matters). DonPMitchell ( talk) 00:18, 12 September 2008 (UTC) reply

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