Vladimir Sergeevich Syromyatnikov (January 7, 1933 - September 19, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian space scientist best known for designing docking mechanisms for manned spacecraft; it was his Androgynous Peripheral Attach System which, in the 1970s, linked the Soviet and American space capsules in the Apollo-Soyuz test flight.
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7 January 1933 Arkhangelsk, USSR
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Died |
19 September 2006 (aged 73) Moscow, Russia
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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