He trained as test engineer to fly on Soyuz 11 to visit the Salyut 1 space station, but the entire crew was bumped when it was suspected that flight engineer Valeri Kubasov had contracted tuberculosis.
Valeri Liukin | Valeri Kubasov | Valeri Bure | Valeri Bojinov | Valeri Bganba | Diego Valeri |
The original prime crew for Soyuz 11 consisted of Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov and Pyotr Kolodin.