Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration

Yuri Gagarin with Valentina Tereshkova
and Soyuz complex designer Konstantin Feoktistov. He was now a senior designer in
Korolev's own OKB-1 and had been involved in the design departments from the mid-
1960s. When the opportunity came to fly passengers on Voskhod, he leapt at the
chance.
1964 civilian engineers (2): Konstantin Feoktistov, Georgi Katys.
Konstantin Feoktistov was drawn from OKB-1 and Georgi Katys from the Academy
of Sciences. This was not intended as a cosmonaut group as such, but as a selection
that would train for one mission only and then return to normal duties. Feoktistov did
not go back quietly, but pressed persistently but unsuccessfully to get further missions.
Medical tests went against him. He continued to offer his opinions on spaceflight
history and contemporary issues into the 1990s.
The first substantial group of civilian engineers was recruited by Vasili Mishin on
23rd May 1966. They did not report for training until September and some of those
listed joined the group even later.